Iran exports $818.5mln worth of gas

Ten cargos of various gas condensates worth some $818,577 million were exported from the PSEEZ in Assalouyeh in the Southern province of Bushehr last month, Nasouri said. He also added that about 430,000 tons of non-oil products worth $252,000 million were exported to other countries during the same period. Light and heavy polyethylene, butane, benzene, urea, raffinate, methanol and sulfur were among the major products sold during the time span, he added. Earlier, Managing-Director of the Pars Energy Zone's Customs Office Ahmad Pourheidari had also announced that Iran exported 12mln tons of different gas condensates in the last Iranian year (March 21, 2011 to March 19, 2012). Pourheidari said in April that the figure indicates a 16-percent increase in weight and a 43-percent increase in value compared with the corresponding figure of an earlier year. Light and heavy polyethylene, gas condensates, propane, butane, benzene, and paraxylene were among major products exported during the mentioned time span, he added. Pourheidari also stressed that Iran exported $9.119 billion worth of various gas condensates from Pars Special Energy Economic Zone in Assalouyeh in the Southern province of Bushehr. Iran's South Pars oil and gas field exported 90mln barrels of gas condensates in the previous Iranian year, an Iranian official had announced in 2011. "The Assalouyeh oil terminal in the South Pars exported 89.1mln barrels of gas condensates, which shows a considerable growth and leap," Head of South Pars Oil Terminals Gholam Abbas Heidari told reporters at the time. Stressing the importance of the giant South Pars oil and gas field in the region, Heidari reiterated, "South Pars is one of the most important oil and gas fields in the Middle-East and we have witnessed its all-out growth during the last two years." Downplaying the effects of the unilateral and international sanctions imposed against Iran's oil and gas sectors, he said that despite such embargoes, the South Pars gas field is now exporting gas condensates supplies to Japan, Singapore, China, the UAE and other Asian countries as well as the European countries, like Britain and the Netherlands.