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News ID: 73532
Publish Date : 04 December 2019 - 22:05

SP Gas Platforms Overhauled by Iranian Experts

TEHRAN (Dispatches) – Head of Production Operations at the Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC) Hadi Fakhrzadeh said that the overhaul operations of 22 offshore platforms in the South Pars Gas Field have come to an end be Iranian experts after 160 days.
Fakhrzadeh added that natural gas, as a key part of the country’s energy mix, plays an important role in meeting the growing need for an environmentally friendly energy source, adding the overhaul operations took 160 working days and entailed over 8,800 orders to be addressed.
The official said that on average, overhaul operations of every platform had been reduced from 17 days in 2009 to 7 days in 2019.
South Pars field is the world’s largest gas field, shared between Iran and Qatar, covering an area of 3,700 square kilometers of Iran’s territorial waters in the Persian Gulf.