Apr 9, 2006, 6:27 PM

Ilam Natural Gas Refinery is 80% complete

TEHRAN, Apr. 9 (MNA) -– The main gas sweetening tower of Ilam Natural Gas Refinery was installed in the refining plant on Sunday. The equipments in the tower absorb the incoming acidic gases and turn them into sweet gas outputs.

Managing director of the refinery, Manuchehr Taheri referred to the tower as the heart of the plant and said that the most important stages in the gas sweetening process took place at the tower.

 

The natural gas produced at Tang–e- Bijar and Kamankuh natural gas fields comprise of the inputs for Ilam Natural Gas Refinery.

 

In its first development phase, the refinery is capable of refining seven million cubic meters of the natural gas, the official said, however, adding the figure was expected to hit 10 million cubic meters in the second phase of development, the Persian service of IRNA reported here on Saturday.

 

Being 80 percent complete, the basic construction works of the refinery started in 2000.

 

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