Iran's gas condensate exports from Assaluyeh surpass $9 billion

Iran has exported $9.119 billion worth of various gas condensates from Pars Special Energy Economic Zone in Assaluyeh in the southern province of Bushehr. Managing director of the customs office of the Pars Special Energy Economic Zone, Ahmad Pourheidari, announced on Monday that Iran exported about 12 million tons of various gas condensates during the previous Iranian calendar year, which ended on March 19, 2012. He noted that the figure indicates a 16-percent increase in weight and a 43-percent increase in value compared with the corresponding figure of an earlier year. Light and heavy polyethylene, gas condensates, propane, butane, benzene, and paraxylene were among major products exported during the mentioned time span, Pourheidari added. Countries such as China, Japan, UAE, India, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Belium, Spain, Turkey, Romania, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Afghanistan are the main destinations for the exported goods from Pars Special Energy Economic Zone. The South Pars field has 14 trillion cubic meters of natural gas - about eight percent of the world's reserves - and more than 18 billion barrels of liquefied natural gas resources.