The Shoorijeh gas storage facility will come on stream by the end of the Iranian month of Shahrivar (September 21), Deputy Oil Minister Javad Owji said on Sunday.
Owji, who is also the managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company, said that the facility is the Middle East's biggest gas storage facility, Trend reports with reference to the Mehr News Agency.
"Iran will store extracted gas from the joint gas fields, especially the giant South Pars field, in the facility," he said.
"The facility has the capacity to store over 4 billion cubic meters of gas," he added.
The Managing Director of Iranian Central Oil Fields Company (ICOFC) Mehdi Fakour said on Saturday that Shoorijeh gas storage facility is now 65 per cent complete.
"Currently the gas injection process is underway in order to make the facility ready to pump enough gas to the northern provinces during winter," the Fars News Agency quoted Fakour as saying.
