TEHRAN – A Consortium of Iranian companies including Mapna Group and Nirpars, begins a project to develop Shurijeh gas storage facility in the northwest of the country, the news portal of Mapna Group reported.

The project includes the construction of a new storage for the mentioned facility, and Neyr Perse, as the executive body of the consortium, has started laying pipelines for the storage.

As reported, the contractors are going to construct flow pipelines, well facilities and gas collection centers, injection turbocompressors, dehumidification facilities, and gas injection and extraction wells to complete the mentioned development project.

The funding for the completion of the said project is provided by Mapna Group.

Mapna Group is a group of Iranian companies involved in the development and execution of thermal and renewable power plants, oil and gas, railway transportation, and other industrial projects as well as manufacturing main equipment including gas and steam turbines, electrical generators, turbine blade and vane, HRSG and conventional boilers, electric and control systems, gas compressor, locomotive, and other pertinent equipment.

The company was founded in 1993 with the initial aim of becoming a general contractor for thermal power plants but evolved and diversified its business lines and capacities to other industries two decades after its establishment. The group is the first and leading West Asian-based general contractor of thermal power plants in the MENA region.

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