Minister says 30m cubic meters of gas processing capacity restored after war
Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad said on Tuesday that Iran has restored about 30 million cubic meters of gas processing capacity lost during the US-Israeli war, which began in late February.
Speaking at a meeting with lawmakers in Parliament's Article 90 Commission, Paknejad said around 30 million cubic meters of the 230 million cubic meters of gas processing capacity that had been lost during the conflict had now been recovered.
He made the remarks during the session with members of the parliamentary commission, describing the restoration as a recovery of part of the country's lost gas processing capacity.
Israeli air strike in March damaged several gas-processing facilities along the coast of Bushehr Province.
The partial recovery follows earlier efforts by the oil and gas sector to restore production after the conflict. Touraj Dehqani, chief executive of the state-run Pars Oil and Gas Company, said previously that technical and operational measures implemented in the downstream sector, together with the use of spare capacity at operating refineries, had helped mitigate the impact of the disruption.
Dehqani also said gas extraction had resumed at three offshore platforms in the South Pars gas field after output was suspended following the air strike. The offshore platforms themselves were not damaged in the attacks, he said.