Aghajari Gas Injection Project

Aghajari Gas Injection project is the world’s biggest Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) project to be inaugurated in Iran in late 2008.

The reservoir dimension of Aghajari ‎fields is 56*6 kms with the original oil-‎in-place of 28 billion barrels and 10.2 billion ‎barrels of recoverable oil (based on ‎latest studies). The total quantities ‎extracted since the start of operations at ‎Aghajari till this date have been 8.8 bn ‎barrels.‎ [ PEDEC Website [http://pedec.ir/plandetail-en-36.html] ]

However, production has been on the ‎decline because of loss of pressure and ‎oil extraction, so that current output is ‎‎180,000 barrels a day.

With injection of 3.6 billion cubic feet of gas per day (20 trillion cubic feet of ‎gas in tolal) from the south pars field and ‎subsequent buildup of pressure, an ‎additional quantity of 1.2 billion barrels of oil ‎will be produced. It is also estimated ‎that daily crude oil output of the field ‎will increase to 300,000 barrels a day.‎ [ PEDEC Website [http://pedec.ir/plandetail-en-36.html] ]

Project consists of three main parts;

Upstream:

Development of South Pars phases 6, 7 and 8.

Midstream:

The 504-km long, 56-inch pipeline for transfer of sour gas from the South Pars gas field phases 6,7 and 8 to be injected to Aghajari oilfield.

Downstream:

Installation of a gas-compression ‎station, drilling of 19 new wells, work ‎over of 3 existing wells for gas ‎injection, installing pipelines on 2 ‎existing gas injecting wells. [ PEDEC Website [http://pedec.ir/plandetail-en-36.html] ]

ee also

*World Largest Gas Fields
*National Iranian Gas Company
*NIOC Recent Discoveries
*Iran Natural Gas Reserves
*South Pars
*North Pars
*Kish Gas Field
*Golshan Gas Field
*Ferdowsi Gas Field
*Persian LNG
*Iran Gas Trunkline (IGAT)

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