Start date: 2016
Finish date: 2017
Location: Iran
Client: Iran Gas Engineering and Development Company
Scope of work: Design review, procurement engineering, management and site supervision
Description: Considering the surface of the country, Iran is the second owner of gas pipelines worldwide (CIA World Factbook, 2015). This size and expansion of utility requires balancing and monitoring systems to communicate data and information to a dispatching center to manage gas flow and pressure, minimize operational imbalances and optimize the supply and consumption all over the country. Dispatching centers are strategic infrastructures in every country comprising a unique, centrally controlled framework incorporating the entire gas chain - production, field treatment, transportation, storage, processing, and distribution(to the city entrants) with centralized information exchange and timely interactions between various parties with the purpose of guaranteeing a safe, reliable and efficient operation based on the actual demand data. All these roles are carried out through a complex technological architecture run by a telemetry network, remote data transition system and centralized acquisition, supervision and control system.
Iran national gas dispatching center which is located in Tehran and its backup in Isfahan is planned to be test launched by September 2017. Monenco Iran Consulting Engineers is in charged of consultancy, document endorsement, management and site supervision of Iran national gas dispatching system. It worth mentioning that Monenco Iran is also Iran Electricity Grid Management Co.(IGMC) consultant and is responsible for the consultancy services, engineering and supervision on implementation of Iran national electricity dispatching center.
The consultancy services and management and site supervision on Iranian national gas dispatching center is awarded to Monenco Iran Consulting Engineers after having engineered and supervised on the implementation of Iran National Electricity Dispatching Center and water and waste water dispatching and telemetry. In this case, Monenco Iran is the sole consulting engineering firm in Iran with the valuable experience of engineering, detailed design, design review, preparation of EPC and EPCF tender documents and management and site supervision on the implementation of electricity, gas and water dispatching centers.