Fire extinguished at South Pars gas field platform in Iran
A fire broke out at the Phase 14 platform of the South Pars gas field in Iran; it was immediately extinguished, and 17 workers were confirmed safe.
In Iran’s Bushehr Province, a fire broke out on Tuesday at the Phase 14 gas platform of the South Pars field, Pars Oil and Gas Company reported. According to the company, the fire was extinguished immediately after the incident began.
During the incident, 17 workers jumped into the sea in an attempt to escape. Later, the Bushehr Province Crisis Response Directorate stated that all of them reached lifeboats and rescue vessels and are in good condition. Three heavy rescue vessels were dispatched to return them to the platform.
Kurosh Dehghan, Director of the Bushehr Province Crisis Response Directorate, said that additional details about the scale of the incident and the condition of the workers will be announced later. A gas leak and operational failure are being considered as possible causes; the exact cause has not been determined.
South Pars is the world’s largest offshore natural gas field. The platform accounts for 14.5 million cubic meters of the over 700 million cubic meters of gas the field produces daily. Iran shares the gas reservoir with Qatar, which calls its portion North Dome.
