"Given
the rise of Iran's gas condensate production and export from South
Pars, IOTC has launched its fourth SBM in the gas field," Pirouz Mousavi
said.
IOTC is responsible for exporting all gas condensate produced in South Pars gas field.
Mousavi
said once the laboratory of Site II of the condensate export terminal
is launched in Assalouyeh, south of Iran, the county will be equipped by
the state-of-the-art facilities for condensate exports.
He said IOTC can continue exporting gas condensate under the harshest climatic conditions.
South
Korea, Japan, China, India and recently Turkey are buyers of Iran’s oil
and gas condensate as the Iranian Ministry of Petroleum is trying to
win back its traditional customers.
An
SBM (also known as single-point mooring) is a loading buoy anchored
offshore, that serves as a mooring point and interconnect for tankers
loading or offloading gas or liquid products.
SPMs
are the link between geostatic subsea manifold connections and
weathervaning tankers. They are capable of handling any size ship, even
very large crude carriers (VLCC) where no alternative facility is
available.