Iran Press/Iran News: An Iranian Oil Ministry contractor, Mohammad Mehdi Tavassolipoour announced that a new drilling rig has officially started extracting gas from phase 14 of the South Pars, the largest gas field in the world which is shared between Iran and Qatar in the Persian Gulf, to raise the country’s output by 14.2 million cubic meters (mcm) a day.
Tavassolipoour made the remarks on Thursday that extraction had started overnight in the third drilling rig at phase 14 of the South Pars to add some 14.2 million cubic meters (mcm) a day to its current output of more than 800 mcm.
The start of production at the new rig in the South Pars would bring Iran’s output from the offshore section of the giant gas field to 42 mcm (1.5 billion cubics).
Total production from South Pars is planned to reach 680 mcm/d by March from the current 630 mcm/d as Iran seeks to completely outdo Qatar in the shared gas field.205
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