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 AsqarSadeghi 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.