The contract for the 6, 7 & 8 project was awarded to Petropars as the general contractor and the Pars Oil and Gas Company as the client in July 2000. This project is divided into onshore and offshore sections. The onshore section is located in Assaluyeh in the state of Booshehr and the offshore is 105 Km’s in the sea of the Persian Gulf. Onshore activities include site preparation and construction of the refinery, whereas the offshore section consists of 3 appraisal wells (one for each phase), 27 development wells (9 for each phase) and the offshore facilities.

NICO a subsidiary of National Iranian Oil Company is responsible for financing this project.

In December 2002 Statoil a Norwegian company was awarded to be the operator of the offshore section for this project with responsibilities including managing jacket, platform and topside fabrications, sub sea piping, single point mooring (SPM) and drilling of the development wells.

The fabrication and installation of jackets was awarded through an EPC contract to ISOICO an Iranian company, which started its activities on July 2002 and completed in January of 2004.

Sadra an Iranian company was awarded the Engineering, Procurement and Construction of topsides, jackets, flares, intermediate-bridges, installation of 32” pipelines for a length of 105 Km, SPM and its connecting pipelines through an EPC contract. These activities were performed on Sadra’s industrial island in Booshehr.

Site preparation for the refinery was started on December 2001 and completed on December 2003 by Fater Kosaran Jonoob and Abad Rahan Pars. This project consisted of over 15 million square meters of soil work. The refinery project was awarded through an EPC contract to the consortium of TIJD which include; TOYO of Japan, IDRO of Iran, JGC of Japan and Daelim of Korea on May 2002.

The power plant for the refinery was awarded to Petropars in addition to the original service contract of phases 6,7&8 and was handed over through an EPC contract to Hirbodan an Iranian company to the design, installation and commissioning of the power plant which includes gas turbines and spare parts with capacities of up to 160 Mega Watts.

The total project management of this project is the responsibility of Petropars which also oversees the management of Statoil the offshore operator.

Three 32" subsea pipelines transport well stream fluids produced at each wellhead platform, 105 Km to the onshore refinery to produce the following products:

Project Achievements:

• Increasing oil production of Aghajari oil field
• Exporting condensate and LPG
• Reducing the cost of executing fundamental projects in comparison to other oil companies
• Knowledge sharing especially in the field of Project Management, Engineering, Procurement, and Construction disciplines
• Maximizing domestic capabilities

The SPIFON (South Pars Integrated Fiber Optic Network) project was also awarded to Petropars in addition to the original service contract of phases 6, 7 & 8. This project creates an integrated system that connects phases 1 through 10 of the South Pars Gas Field offshore platforms to the onshore by enabling data transmission, management, monitoring and control through a sub-sea fiber optic cable (FOC) wide area network (WAN) system. This project consists of 300 Km of sub-sea fiber optic cabling, 20 Km of fiber optic cabling on land and over 3 Km of cabling on the offshore platforms and is capable of transferring data at rates of 2.5 Gbps.

The Power Generation Plant Project for the refinery of phases 6,7&8 was awarded to Petropars on June 2005. The joint venture of Hirbodan and Hico FZE was selected as the contractor for this project. The duration of this project is scheduled to take about 20 months. Main items for this project consists of; four SGT-800 gas turbines, four 50-MVA transformers, three 2-Megawatt diesel generators, waste management systems, control building, switch gear and electrical installations, Power Distribution Control Systems and more.

The Non-Industrial buildings contract was awarded to Petropars on October 2004; MANA was selected as the contractor for this project. Scope of work for this project consists of design and detail engineering, procurement of bulk and equipment, construction and commissioning of; buildings, restaurant, clinics, storage and covered parking.