Due to the country’s urgent need for gas supply during the cold seasons and the shortage of feed to the Parsian Gas Refinery, as well as reduced reservoir pressure and various operational problems such as hydrate formation, high pressure drops, increased pigging operations, and associated water, the Iranian Central Oil Fields Company defined and initiated the project for the construction and commissioning of the Tabnak Gas Separation Center.
The Tabnak Separation Center is located about 40 km north of Parsian County (Gavbandi) and 25 km from the Parsian Gas Refinery.
The plant has a capacity of 3 million cubic meters of gas per day, produced from the Tabnak gas field wells as a three-phase flow (gas, condensate, and associated water).
The incoming gas flow to this center is supplied through 24-inch gas pipelines from the Tabnak Gathering Centers 1 and 2, and another 24-inch line from Tabnak Gathering Center 3.
After separating the condensate and associated water in the finger-type separators and measuring in the metering unit, the gas stream is transferred to the Parsian Gas Refinery through two 30-inch pipelines.
Meanwhile, the recovered liquids are stabilized, measured in the metering unit, and transferred to the Parsian Gas Refinery through an 8-inch pipeline running alongside the 30-inch gas pipelines.