Iranian Central Oil Fields Company has raised its natural gas production capacity by 600,000 cubic meters per day by launching Well No. 45 of Tabnak gas field at Parsian Operational Region.

South Zagros Oil and Gas Production Company as one of the three ICOFC subsidiaries based in Fars Province has launched the well with the capacity to produce 600,000 cubic meter of natural gas per day.

Badiollah Mousavi, operator of the area, has said the well has become operational after SZOGPC carried out all the preliminaries including locating, drilling, installation of wellhead facilities, acidizing, well cleansing, air removal, pressurizing and removing the leakages.

Parsian Operational Region includes Tabnak, Homa, Shanoul and Varavi fields, all located in the southern province of Fars. The fields are estimated to produce a total of 80 million cubic meters of natural gas per day once fully operational.