The giant third gas-extracting offshore platform of South Pars Phase 13, known as platform 13-A, was held in place on Monday morning, reported Tasnim News Agency.

The new structure’s daily capacity of gas extraction is 14.2 million cubic meters.

The fourth platform of Phase 13 is also going to be installed within the next few days.

The homegrown platforms have been manufactured by Iran Marine Industrial Company also known as SADRA, based in Bandar Abbas.

In January, Ali-Asghar Sadeqi, the deputy operator of the phases 22-24 development project said that after the installation and implementation of the third platform of the phases 22, 23, 24 of the field’s development project, sour gas from this platform has been transported to the refinery via pipelines.

Mentioning the fact that all the operations regarding the construction, loading, and installation of the mentioned platform were carried out by Iranian experts, Sadeqi said the hookup operations of the platform were done over two weeks despite the unstable weather conditions.

He further noted that considering the production of 28 mcm of gas from the two previously installed platforms of the phases 22-24, the total daily output of the mentioned phases has now reached 42 mcm.

The platform SPD-23, which is the third platform of the phases 22, 23, 24 of South Pars Gas Field development project was installed at its designated offshore place in Phase 23 in mid-November 2019.

South Pars Gas Field, which Iran shares with Qatar in the Persian Gulf, covers an area of 9,700 square kilometers, 3,700 square kilometers of which, called South Pars, are in Iran’s territorial waters. The remaining 6,000 square kilometers, called North Dome, are situated in Qatar’s territorial waters.

The field is estimated to contain a significant amount of natural gas, accounting for about eight percent of the world’s reserves, and approximately 18 billion barrels of condensate.