Iran (IMNA) - According to a Tuesday report by the official IRNA news agency, technical teams at the field—located in Khuzestan Province in southwest Iran—have successfully brought online one of four production trains, enabling the production and processing of 80,000 barrels per day (bpd).
The report noted that Iranian technicians and contractors are solely responsible for commissioning the Central Treatment & Export Plant (CTEP), a project designed to raise total output from South Azadegan to 320,000 bpd once fully operational.
Contractors have completed work on Train C and are now working at full speed to launch production from Train D before the end of December.
Over the past year alone, the project has achieved significant milestones, including installing more than 450 kilometers of cabling and completing 122,000 inches of on-site pipeline welding.
The pace of progress at the CTEP project, the report said, highlights the true capabilities of Iranian companies and underscores the country’s technological confidence and self-reliance in the face of tough foreign sanctions.
Initial development contracts for South Azadegan—one of Iran’s largest oil fields connected to Iraq’s Majnoon Field, where major international companies have carried out extensive development—were awarded in the 1980s to Chinese and Japanese firms.
Today, state-controlled Petropars, which has taken charge of several major petroleum projects abandoned by foreign companies due to US sanctions, is overseeing operations in South Azadegan.
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