Iran restores 70% of South Pars Phase 14 refinery capacity after Israeli strike

Iran restores 70% of the production capacity at its South Pars Phase 14 refinery, which was damaged during a June 2025 Israeli drone strike. Touraj Dehghani of Pars Oil and Gas Company reports that three production trains resumed operations within ten days of the attack, with full restoration expected by March 2027. The facility, which processes 56.6 million cubic meters of gas daily, is part of the world's largest gas field shared with Qatar, highlighting its strategic energy importance.

South Pars refinery restoration

• ▪Iran has restored 70% of the production capacity at the Phase 14 refinery of the South Pars gas field following damage from a June 2025 Israeli strike.
• ▪Touraj Dehghani, managing director of Pars Oil and Gas Company, stated that Iran aims to complete the full reconstruction of the damaged South Pars facilities within two years, despite initial estimates suggesting it would take at least three years.
• ▪Touraj Dehghani, managing director of Pars Oil and Gas Company, stated that reconstruction of the South Pars Phase 14 refinery began immediately after the June 14, 2025 attack.
• ▪Three damaged production trains at the South Pars Phase 14 refinery were returned to operation in less than 10 days after the June 14, 2025 attack.
• ▪The remaining damaged production capacity at the South Pars Phase 14 refinery is expected to return to service by the end of the Iranian calendar year in March 2027.

Israeli strike Iranian infrastructure

• ▪Safety and debris-removal operations at the third and fifth South Pars refineries were completed in less than two months following damage sustained in the war that began on February 28, 2026.
• ▪An Israeli drone strike targeted Phase 14 of the South Pars gas field in Iran's southern Bushehr province on June 14, 2025, causing a fire at the facility.
• ▪Touraj Dehghani, managing director of Pars Oil and Gas Company, stated that four South Pars refineries were damaged during a 40-day war that began on February 28, 2026.
• ▪The National Iranian Oil Company and Pars Oil and Gas Company were tasked with rebuilding the third and fifth South Pars refineries, which sustained heavier damage during the 40-day war that began on February 28, 2026.

June 2025 conflict

• ▪The United States entered the June 2025 conflict by striking three Iranian nuclear facilities before a ceasefire took effect on June 24, 2025.
• ▪The June 14, 2025 drone strike on the South Pars Phase 14 refinery occurred during a 12-day conflict that began with Israeli strikes on Iran on June 13, 2025.

Gas production capacity

• ▪South Pars is the Iranian section of the world's largest non-associated natural gas field, which is shared with Qatar, where it is known as the North Field.
• ▪Phase 14 of the South Pars gas field is designed to produce around 50 million cubic meters of sweet gas and 75,000 barrels of gas condensate daily.
• ▪Phase 14 of the South Pars gas field is designed to process approximately 56.6 million cubic meters of gas per day.

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