According to MANA,Hassan Boveiri said that installation of two offshore platforms and drilling of 22 wells as well as construction of a refinery for processing the recovered gas the two phases was carried out by 2015.
He said since January 2015, 9.5 bcm of gas, 6 million barrels of gas condensate with export of 4 mb, 82,000 tons of ethane, have 135,000 tons of propane have been recovered from the two phases which have fetched the country $1.5b in revenues.
Boveiri further said that platforms 17B and 18B of the phases will also be launched under the second section of the phases' development projects to add 56 mcm/d to their production capacity.
He hoped the two platforms will come on-stream by February 2017