The Iranian Oil Ministry plans to expand its underground gas storage (UGS) facilities in center and northeast of the country to allow better management of gas resources during cold winter months. A Thursday report by semi-official Fars news agency said that Iran's UGS capacity will reach 6 billion cubic meters (bcm) by 2025, nearly double the current ...

SHANA - Iran has stored nearly 2 billion cubic meters of natural gas in subsurface gas storage facilities of Sarajeh and Shourijeh in the first half of the current Iranian calendar year which began on March 21. The gas is being injected to the facilities for consumption during winter and enhancing production of the country's oilfields. Speaking ...

TEHRAN Dec 01 (Shana)--The capacity of gas injection into Sarajeh storage facility is to double to 20 mcm/d once it has been developed, a gas distribution official said. Houshang Mehrdadfar said the current 10mcm/d capacity is being handled by three compressors. He added that the facility would receive three more turbocompressors for more gas injection....

The Islamic Republic President Mahmood Ahmadinejad inaugurated gas storage and refinery of Sarajeh near the town of Qom on Saturday 5 January. Iran used empty gas field of Sarajeh near the town of Qom to built its first strategic gas storage deep under the ground in regard of dealing with shortage of gas in the cold season. By ...

Site at Sarajeh, outside the holy city of Qom, can store 1.5 billion cubic meters, soon to increase to 3.3 billion TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iranian state TV on Saturday said the country has inaugurated its first natural gas storage facility. According to the report, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad opened the facility at Sarajeh outside the central ...