Fars News Agency said in its report Monday that the SPD11A, a 76-meter rig jacket weighing 2,257 metric tons, was loaded onto the ship for transport to Phase 11 in South Parr.
The rig was built in 15 months at the shipyard of the Iranian Marine Industry Company known as Sadra and is located in Bucher province with an investment of 13.8 million euros.
The platform will be installed on South Pur in a 45-day process that begins in late October, the report said, adding that the rig will begin drilling six wells in the area in January.
It will take two years for the wells to begin gas production, and once the wells are ready, Southpur’s Phase 11 will reach its maximum production of 28 million cubic meters per day, he added.
Phase 11 is the most complicated of all 28 phases on the Iranian side of South Pur, the world’s largest gas field that poses the maritime border between Iran and Qatar.
The consortium of international and domestic companies led by the French energy giant was asked in 2018 to develop phase 11 before Iran took US sanctions.
However, in August 2023, Iran announced that it had started producing gas from Phase 11 using the technical capabilities of domestic companies.
Southpurs is responsible for 70% of Iran’s natural gas supply and 40% of the necessary raw materials in the country’s gasoline production sector. It covers 40 offshore drilling rigs, hundreds of wells, and thousands of kilometres of underwater pipelines.
MNA/presstv