Iran’s Daily Oil Output in Persian Gulf to Increase 10,000 BPD: Official


TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s daily production of oil in the Persian Gulf will rise by 10,000 barrels per day (BPD).

Chief Executive of the Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) Alireza Mehdizadeh on Saturday announced that the daily oil production of the company will increase by about 10,000 barrels of oil per day with the installation of a deck of Platforms A20 and A21 of Abouzar Oilfield in the second half of the current Iranian calendar year (to start Sep. 21).

Speaking during a visit to the workshop for constructing decks of Platforms A20 and A21 of Abouzar Oilfield in Khorramshahr, he said that construction of these oil platforms has witnessed about 85 physical progress.

With the planning made in this regard, the oil platforms will be installed at the desired location, he said.

Each of these platforms weighs about 1,200 tons, Mehdizadeh pointed out, saying that the infrastructure of these platforms had earlier been installed at the desired location and the drilling operation of the eight oil wells at the platform site has had a 90-percent progress.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the CEO of the IOOC pointed to the pre-commissioning stage of this giant project and said that the pre-commissioning stage of this project would begin one month later.

The stages for transporting, installing and commissioning these oil platforms would be completed by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (to end March 20, 2024) and the company would witness a production increase of 10,000 barrels of oil per day in the Persian Gulf region.