Iran Ups Gas Deliveries to Power Stations
Iran's daily gas deliveries to power plants have exceeded 200mn m3/d since the start of the third month of the current fiscal year (March 21). But the cumulative amount of gas delivered to that sector this fiscal year (FY) is still 3.6% less than in the same period of last FY.
In the first three weeks of this month (May 22 - June 11), power plants took 213mn m3/d, while from March 21 to May 21 they took about 144mn m3/d in average, the latest weekly statistics of Iran's energy ministry indicate.
During 83 days of fiscal year, Iran delivered about 13.446bn m3, or 162mn m3/d to power plants.
Power sector demand (mn m³)
|
From Mar 21 |
Cumulative consumption ( |
Y/Y change |
|
13 days |
1,460 |
- 5.5% |
|
20 days |
2,314 |
-10.9% |
|
27 days |
3,274 |
-11.7% |
|
34 days |
4,228 |
-11.9% |
|
41 days |
5,360 |
-9.7% |
|
48 days |
6,494 |
-9% |
|
55 days |
7,619 |
-9.7% |
|
62 days |
8,970 |
-7.6% |
|
69 days |
10,379 |
-6.5% |
|
76 days |
11,865 |
-5% |
|
83 days |
13,446 |
-3.6% |
Source: energy ministry
Iran plans to increase deliveries to power plants by 7bn m3 to a total 65bn m3 this fiscal year.
Iran also cut diesel and mazut over the same period to power plants, which consumed 834mn litres, or 314mn litres less than the same period a year ago.
Cumulative demand for liquid fuels (mn litres)
|
Gas oil |
Y/Y change cumulative |
Fuel oil demand |
Y/Y change cumulative |
|
|
13 days |
21 |
+90.9% |
76 |
-37.7% |
|
20 days |
51 |
+168.4% |
162 |
+4.5% |
|
27 days |
60 |
+30.4% |
209 |
+14.8% |
|
34 days |
71 |
-11.3% |
252 |
+16.7% |
|
41 days |
84 |
-27% |
298 |
+5.7% |
|
48 days |
95 |
-34.9% |
345 |
+6.5 |
|
55 days |
115 |
-36.5% |
416 |
+8.3% |
|
62 days |
145 |
-34.4% |
467 |
+6.4% |
|
69 days |
172 |
-31.7% |
502 |
+2.7% |
|
76 days |
218 |
-27.1% |
540 |
-12/6% |
|
83 days |
261 |
-27.1% |
573 |
-24.4% |
Source: energy ministry
Coming to power generation, the country added 508 MW to the generation capacity during current FY, which stands at 74,603 MW now, but output fell to 61.1 TWh, down about 1 TWh.
Exports fell by 54% to 913 GWh, while imports rose by 3% to 1,114 GWh in the period.
The volume of natural gas supplied to power plants rose from 36.2bn m3 in the year ended in March 2014 to 58bn m3 in the past fiscal year, ended on March 21. The share of liquid fuel fell from 46% in the year ended in March 2014 to 18% in the past fiscal year.
Dalga Khatinoglu is NGE's expert on Iran's energy sector and head of Trend Agency's Iran news service