Tehran, YJC. Hormoz Qalavand, Managing Director of the National Iranian Oil Company’s (NIOC) Exploration Department said on Sunday a huge natural gas reserve has been discovered in south of Iran.
"He have started drilling the exploration oil wells in order
to estimate the volume of this new gas reserve,” said Qalavand.
Despite the fact that the drop in oil prices is a serious
threat to the interests of most oil countries, it nonetheless creates the
opportunity for the great oil exporters like Iran and Iraq to concentrate their
tasks on expanding their oil capacities and increasing supplies.
Under current situations and as oil prices have hit their
lowest record since October 2009 as $60 per barrel, Iran has taken advantage of
the temporary paralysis in oil and gas industry by launching exploration
projects in the Persian Gulf.
Right now, Iran, with many large-scale natural gas
condensate fields which include South Pars, Golshan, Ferdowsi, Arash, Homa and
over 34 trillion cubic meters of exploitable reserves, holds the largest
natural gas reserve in the world.
Exploration studies of the NIOC carried out recently have
identified a new large-scale natural gas reserve in the south of Fars Province,
near Bushehr. It is predicted that the reserve would extend all the way to
Hormoz Strait in Persian Gulf.
"At this moment, testing and evaluating operations on the
lower paleozoic formation are being carried out, which have ensured the
existence of natural gas and gas condensates in the area,” maintained Qalavand.