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Iran has resumed gas production at three offshore platforms in the South Pars natural gas field, the largest in the world, after Israeli strikes on onshore processing facilities forced output to halt, the chief executive of Pars Oil and Gas Company said Sunday.
Touraj Dehqani, speaking to state media via Mizan News Agency, said the platforms themselves had suffered no damage in the strikes. They had been taken offline because the onshore facilities in Iran's Bushehr province that receive and process the gas they produce were damaged, leaving the platforms with nowhere to send their output.
"Gas production has resumed at three offshore platforms in the South Pars natural gas field that were halted despite not being damaged," Dehqani said.
With certain onshore processing plants still damaged or under reconstruction, Iran has rerouted production from the returned platforms to other operational gas refineries in the region.
Dehqani said the company was using maximum available capacity at active refineries and coordinating across the downstream sector to absorb the revived output.
He described the approach as reflecting the "operational flexibility, technical capability and effective coordination between different sectors of the country's oil and gas industry," adding that the recovery process would continue as planned.
Reconstruction work at the Phase 14 refinery, identified as one of the damaged facilities, is underway "with full force," Dehqani said, with debris removal continuing without interruption at other stricken sites.
Pars Oil and Gas Company is responsible for supplying more than 70% of Iran's natural gas.
Dehqani said the company had "deployed all its efforts and expertise in the path of reviving gas production and rebuilding damaged refineries as quickly as possible."
The South Pars field is jointly operated by Iran and Qatar, which administers the same geological structure from its side under the name North Dome or North Field. The field set a daily production record of 730 million cubic meters in 2025.
Israeli strikes hit the South Pars area on March 18, damaging refinery infrastructure in the coastal strip of Bushehr province.
The attacks disrupted production at one of the world's most critical natural gas installations at a moment when the Strait of Hormuz, the key export route for Gulf energy, had already been effectively closed by the Iran war.
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