Iran starts extracting 14 mcm of gas from new platform at South Pars
Iran has increased its gas production from a sprawling field in the Persian Gulf despite sanctions imposed by the United States which have sought a total halt to development projects in the country’s energy sector.
A contractor working at South Pars, the world’s largest gas field shared between Iran and Qatar, said on Tuesday that taking gas from the offshore rig located at Phase 23 of the field had started two days ago after a successful hook-up operation.
Ali Asqar Sadeghi said that the rig would pump some 14 million cubic meters (mcm) a day, or 500 million cubic feet, of natural gas through pipelines to the onshore refineries at Phase 22 and 24 of South Pars.
“The entire hook-up and launching operation at Phase 23’s platform was carried out within two weeks despite unstable weather conditions,” said Sadeghi, whose Pars Oil and Gas Company is contracted for Phases 22 to 24 of the giant gas field.
The announcement comes less than two weeks after Iran started taking gas from another offshore platform at South Pars.
It means that Iran is currently extracting more than 56 mcm per day of gas from offshore platforms in the field.
Total production from South Pars is planned to reach 650 mcm a day by March as Iran seeks to completely outperform Qatar, whose section of the field is called North Dome, with regard to production.
Iran has said it will reach a total gas output of one billion mcm a day within the next two years. The country’s current output stands at more than 800 million mcm per day.
The progress in the Iranian gas sector comes despite a series of crippling American sanctions that have sought to dissuade foreign companies from engaging in projects for development of the South Pars.
Iran has awarded a multi-billion contract to an Iranian company to develop Phase 11 of the South Pars, a project that stalled in 2018 after major companies like France’s Total and China’s CNPC began to pull out under increasing US pressure.
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