Stroytransgaz Completed a Major Gas Processing Plant in Syria
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Damask, Syria – A major gas processing plant in Syria constructed by Stroytransgaz on turn key basis was put into operation on the 18th of November in the South Middle Area of the Syrian Arab Republic. The South Middle Area Gas Exploitation Project Phase I was finished successfully.
During the opening ceremony President of Syrian Arab Republic Bashar Assad highlighted the particular importance of the project and its significant contribution to energy security and economic development of Syria.
The Head of Syrian Arab Republic particularly noted the quality and high technical level of the work performed by Stroytransgaz, and underlined the role of Stroytransgaz as a key Russian partner for the construction of fuel and energy complex facilities in SAR.
Chairman of the Stroytransgaz Management Board A. Ryazanov thanked the President and the Syrian Government for the active support of the project. He expressed a special appreciation to His Excellency Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources of the Syrian Arab Republic Sufian Al -Alao for the friendly approach to settling the problems that arose during the plant construction, as well as for creating favorable conditions that ensured a successful start-up of the project. Stroytransgaz emphasized its readiness to continue the realization of new industrial projects in SAR.
The members of SAR Government headed by Prime Minister Muhammed Nadji Otri, General Director of Oil Direction of Syria Engineer Ali Abbas, and General Director of Syrian Gas Company Eng. Husein Wadaa took part in the start-up ceremony.
The Russian delegation was headed by Co-Chairman of Intergovernmental Russian-Syrian Committee for Commercial and Economic and Scientific-Technical Cooperation, Communications Minister of Russia I.O. Scheglov.
Additional Information
South Middle Area Gas Exploitation Project is a second major project executed by Stroytransgaz in Syria (after the Arab Gas Pipeline from the Jordan-Syrian border to Homs).
In 2005 Stroytransgaz won the international tender bids announced by Syrian Gas Company for development of South Middle Area Gas Exploitation Project Phase I. The contract was signed on the 5th of December, 2005 on EPC terms.
The work performed by Stroytransgaz included developing well sites and installing separators for preliminary gas treatment at three fields (Abo Rabah, North Al Faid, and Qomqom), construction of gathering pipelines from wells to the preliminary separators and to the gas processing plant, tie-ins to active gas and oil pipelines, and racks for loading of the liquefied gas into tank trucks.
This is the largest industrial project in the Syrian oil and gas industry. With the annual processing of 2,6 BCMPA of natural gas, the annual output will amount to 2,2 billion cubic meters of commercial natural gas, 38,5 thousand cubic meters of liquefied propane-butane, and 230 thousand cubic meters of gas condensate.
