Pars Oil and Gas Company announced that a fire broke out on one of the gas platforms in Phase 14 of the South Pars field, stating that the blaze was contained and all platform personnel were safely evacuated.
According to a company statement published by Iranian media, evacuation operations were carried out simultaneously with firefighting efforts, allowing all staff to leave the platform unharmed.
While the statement provided no explanation for the cause of the fire, Fars News Agency quoted Ahmad Zeraatkar, Deputy Minister of Petroleum for Planning, as identifying two possible causes: a “gas leak” or an “operational accident.”
Zeraatkar put the platform’s gas production capacity at 14.5 million cubic meters per day, describing it as a limited share of South Pars’s total daily output of more than 700 million cubic meters.
The incident comes as Ministry of Petroleum officials have warned in recent days of worsening nationwide gas shortages due to damage to South Pars facilities during the 40-day war.
Hamid Bourd, Acting Minister of Petroleum, confirmed a 25 percent reduction in Iran’s gas production capacity following U.S. and Israeli strikes.
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