Iran is moving ahead with the complex Farzad B gas field, signaling growing technical self-reliance and energy resilience that secures its majority stake, overcomes sanctions-era delays, and adds roughly one billion cubic feet of gas per day.

Iran opens a third infill well at South Pars to increase its production from the world’s largest gas field.

Iran’s Petropars opens an infill gas well in Phase 1 of the South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf.

Iran is planning to increase its natural gas production by a fourth in the next five years.

Iran’s oil ministry says a first infill well in the South Pars gas field will come on line within a month.

With investment and production from unconventional shale reserves which the country has already discovered, Iran’s gas supply capacity could rise more than twofold in the coming decade.

OPEC data show Iran’s natural gas production rose by 2% in 2022 to over 262 bcm.