Iran Expects to Produce 100 mcm of Gas Per Day from South Pars by March

Iran plans to pump 100 million cubic meters (mcm) of natural gas per day at South Pars gas field by end of Iranian calendar year (new year starts March 21, 2015).

“The promise to increase gas production from South Pars to 100 million cubic meters [per day] will be fulfilled by the end of the current [Iranian] year,” Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, Iran’s oil minister said Thursday, according to Tehran Times newspaper.

Zanganeh said that phases 12, 15, 16, 17 and 18 were among top priorities in the giant gas field, adding that phase 12 will be fully operational in the near future.

In early December, phase 16 of South Pars come on line. Officials expect output of phases 15 and 16 to hit 23 mcm per day once three gas desalting installations become operational.