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Siemens has received a major order for 12 compressor trains for two onshore natural gas processing plants in Iran.
Siemens' customer is the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company Hampa Engineering Corporation. The plants are operated by Palayesh Parsian Sepehr.
The order volume “is in the high double-digit million euro range”, with commercial operation expected by end of 2018, Siemens said.
Ten of the twelve trains are for the Mohr C2+ hydrocarbon recovery plant, located in the Fars Province in south-central Iran. Four of these STC-SV compressors will be driven by Siemens SGT-700 gas turbines “which give the customer an especially high OPEX benefit, thanks to their reliability and efficiency” the company explained. Four more compressor trains for the Mohr plant will be driven by Siemens SGT-100 gas turbines, and two others will be driven by an electric motor.
The remaining two trains are to be supplied to the Assaluyeh plant in the Bushehr Province.
The plant in Mohr will process natural gas into C2+ hydrocarbons. Part of these hydrocarbons will serve the domestic Iranian gas market, while the long-chained hydrocarbons will be transported by pipeline to the Iranian coast 60 kilometers away. The hydrocarbons will be further fractionated at the Assaluyeh plant.
“This is the first huge oil and gas order since the easing of sanctions in January 2016” said Mohsen Nayebzadeh, CEO of Siemens in Iran.