Siemens Wins Major Iran Order

Germany's Siemens said January 23 it had received a major order for 12 compressor trains for two onshore gas processing plants in Iran. It said the order volume is is "in the high double-digit million euro range" and that commercial operation is expected by end-2018.

Siemens’ customer is the Hampa Engineering Corporation, the engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the plants’ operator, Palayesh Parsian Sepehr. Ten of the twelve trains are for the Mohr gas process plant, in Fars Province in south-central Iran.

The gas will serve Iran’s domestic gas market, but long-chained hydrocarbons will be transported in a pipeline to the Iranian coast 60 km away where they will be fractionated into LPGs and ethane at the Assaluyeh plant in Bushehr province to which Siemens will supply the other two compressor trains.

Although Siemens has been present in Iran since 1868, Siemens Iran CEO Mohsen Nayebzadeh said: “This is the first huge oil and gas order since the easing of sanctions in January 2016.”

Four of the ten compressor trains to be supplied to the Mohr gas process plant in Iran will each be driven by a Siemens SGT-700 industrial gas turbine (Photo credit: Siemens)

German economy and energy minister Sigmar Gabriel was in Iran in early October with over 120 business leaders; his October 2-4 visit to Iran included the fifth German-Iranian economic commission, its first session for 15 years.

Mark Smedley