Open AccessIran’s Strategy for Natural Gas
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
petroleum and chemical industry international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2639-7536
DOI - 10.33140/pcii/01/02/00002
Subject(s) - subsidiary , petrochemical , natural gas , fossil fuel , christian ministry , business , petroleum , stock (firearms) , fuel oil , engineering , natural resource economics , waste management , finance , economics , chemistry , mechanical engineering , political science , organic chemistry , multinational corporation , law
Natural gas as one the most significant fossil fuels is playing a crucial role in national energy mix in different countries.Nevertheless, its applications have not been limited to energy providing, and has been used widely as the feed stock inproduction of different varieties of petrochemicals. So that most of new petrochemical complexes around the countryare designed and constructed based on natural gas feed.Natural gas was produced as one of the byproducts of crude oil and mostly was burned. Gradually along with increasingvolumes of extracted natural gas, planning on gathering and using associated gas resulted in more usage of naturalgas in different sectors including petrochemical feed and fuel. Following the developments, National Iranian GasCompany (NIGC) was established in 1965 as one of the subsidiaries of the petroleum ministry with initial capital of25 million Rials.Since its establishment, NIGC has gradually achieved capabilities and managed to have access to various sourcesand facilities such as experts and efficient human force equipped with scientific and theoretical vision and knowledge,tools, equipment, machinery and various advanced workshops for implementing its operations proportionate with theeconomic and social development trend of the country, so that it can independently accomplish all the related taskscomplying with the valid international acceptable standards.Today, NIGC as one of the 4 mail subsidiaries of petroleum ministry is supplying more than 70 percent of total energyin the country as well as the feed stock for tens of petrochemical and industrial complexed around the country. Thecompany also is operating one of the biggest high pressure gas transmission and distribution networks of the worldfacilitating export, import, transit and swap of natural gas in the country. In the point of natural gas treatment andsupply, the company has the first position in the Middle East and one of major gas companies around the world.At the time being, the number of the NIGC permanent staff is more than19000official staff and more than 19300 total staff