South Pars gas field

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The South Pars gas field ( English South Pars Gas-Condensate field ), including the North field ( English North Dome Field ), is the largest gas field in the world that has been discovered to date that is not part of an oil reservoir. It is claimed and exploited by Qatar and Iran . On the list of the world's largest gas fields , it has more recoverable reserves than any other field combined.

It is of great economic and geostrategic importance and, because of the plans for a gas pipeline to Europe, is said to be one of the reasons for the war in Syria .

Location and capacity

The gas field is located in the Persian Gulf and stretches from the coast of Qatar across almost the entire width of the inlet. The area of ​​the gas field is almost 10,000 km², of which a little more than 2/3 are in Qatar. The gas reserves of the field be estimated 1,300 TCF ( English quintillion cubic feet , trillion cubic feet ), which is approximately 221 billion BOE (barrel of oil equivalent) and 31 Gtoe (billion tons oil equivalent ) corresponds. About 500 TCF are on Iranian territory.

North field

The north field or north gas field (English North Dome Field) in Qatar is the part of the South Pars gas field in the area of ​​Qatar. It extends off the coast of Qatar over an area of ​​6,000 km² and, at 900 trillion cubic feet (25.5 trillion cubic meters), contains about 20% of the known natural gas reserves. The industrial settlement Ras Laffan was founded to export the natural gas .

history

Parts of the gas field - the north field - were discovered on Qatar's side in cooperation with Shell as early as 1971 . Commercial production began in 1989. The first discovery on the Iranian side dates back to 1990, and development began in 2003 in several phases by the Iranian national gas company Pars Oil and Gas Company .

The first phase of local development by the North Field Alpha Consortium was completed in 1991 and natural gas was produced. In 1996 the export of liquefied natural gas for the Japanese company Chubu Electric Power through the Qatar Liquefied Gas Company Ltd. began. ( Qatargas ). Qatargas owns 65% of Qatar Petroleum , Total 10%, ExxonMobil 10%, Mitsui 7.5% and Marubeni 7.5%. In 2005, a total of 450 billion cubic feet (BCF) should be liquefied from Qatar gas. The second consortium already producing is Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company Ltd. (RasGas), owned by Qatar Petroleum to 63%, ExxonMobil to 25%, the Japanese Itōchū Shōji and Nissho Iwai to 4% and 3%, and the Korean KORAS to 5%, which mainly deliver to South Korea and Japan.

Since the end of 2004, the Dolphin Project has been supplying natural gas from the north field through an undersea pipeline to Tawila in the emirate of Abu Dhabi and Jabal Ali in the emirate of Dubai . 2 BCF natural gas are transported.

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  1. ↑ Why the Arabs Don't Want Us in Syria . In: POLITICO Magazine . (English, politico.com [accessed February 24, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Thomas Pany: Syria: A war for reasons of energy policy. Retrieved February 24, 2017 .
  3. ↑ EU loosens arms embargo: Syria is about natural gas. Retrieved February 24, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Background: Iran / Qatar gas field is the largest gas field in the world. ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. derStandard.at, April 21, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-graz.at

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