The 12-day war in June 2025 (Khordad 1404) inflicted significant damage on refinery facilities of the Phase 14 project, which were then in the final stages of completion. Yet production and project completion never fully stopped — the recovery and reconstruction effort that followed revealed another dimension of the national project's capabilities.

In June 2025, firefighting and safety operations on the damaged refinery structures in the Kangan region were carried out even as the risk of renewed attack persisted, with wartime constraints — including disrupted personnel movement and logistical support — making the work even harder. Despite these conditions, operations, firefighting, and support staff maintained a continuous presence on site to contain the fire and secure the facilities.

At the same time, repairs began on the less-damaged sections. Within 10 days, three process trains and parts of the export lines were back on the path to service — a move that restored a major share of the refinery's processing capacity in the shortest possible time and enabled continued gas processing and transmission. Once the emergency phase had passed, reconstruction of the damaged sections entered a more structured stage, with engineering, procurement, equipment fabrication and repair, and field operations all advancing in parallel. Today, reconstruction of the damaged sections continues, and alongside offshore activities, rich gas extraction from this phase has also increased.

Reconstruction: From Engineering Design to Field Operations

One of the most critical work fronts since the war has been rebuilding the refinery's second sweetening train. A large share of its engineering, procurement, and execution phases has been completed, and according to the Managing Director of Pars Oil and Gas Company, the project has reached 70 percent progress. Engineering work is about 96 percent complete, laying the groundwork for equipment fabrication and on-site execution. Alongside this, pump manufacturing, procurement of electrical and instrumentation equipment, piping orders, and fabrication of required static equipment have proceeded with the participation of domestic manufacturers. Repairs on all equipment scheduled for maintenance have also been completed, with a significant portion now ready to return to service. The Phase 14 refinery has become one of the largest active repair and reconstruction fronts in the South Pars region — welding and pipeline installation, hydrotesting, leak testing, pump repair and installation, electrical and instrumentation cabling, lighting installation, and unit start-up preparations are all proceeding in parallel. According to the latest operational report, more than 20,000 diameter-inches of welding have been completed across various units, alongside dozens of completed testing, flushing, installation, and equipment preparation operations.

The scale of these efforts is also reflected in workforce numbers: 1,630 personnel are currently active at the Phase 14 refinery, with a major share of the workforce focused on advancing repair, reconstruction, completion, and continued production.

4 mcm More Gas Per Day

While the onshore section of Phase 14 was carrying out one of its most extensive repair and reconstruction programs, offshore development activity never paused either. On Phase 14's offshore platforms, well completion, workover, and acidizing operations continued. At the SPD14C platform, the completion of drilling five wells and acidizing ten producing wells boosted rich gas extraction capacity from the shared South Pars reservoir. Together, these efforts increased daily gas production from Phase 14's offshore section by roughly 4 million cubic meters — an achievement realized even as refinery reconstruction was underway, demonstrating that the project's development activities never stalled, even under the most difficult operating conditions.

A Refinery Serving the National Gas Grid

Today, Phase 14 South Pars stands as one of the major gas production sources within South Pars. Based on the latest figures, total feed input from the phase's four offshore platforms has reached close to its designed capacity of 56 million cubic meters, a significant share of which is sent daily as sweet gas to the national gas grid, while some of the gas produced by this phase's platforms is also processed at other South Pars refineries. Since the refinery began operations, more than 109 billion cubic meters of rich gas have entered the facility. In addition, with the connection of Phase 14's LPG lines to Kangan Petro-Refinery, around 14,000 tons of propane and more than 30,000 tons of butane have been delivered via this route to date.

Phase 14: Approaching the Final Stretch of Development

Alongside production and reconstruction, the remaining work under the Phase 14 development project continues. Completing the remaining wells, boosting and stabilizing production and sweetening capacity, finishing the remaining units, reducing flaring, and preparing facilities for final handover to the operator are the main priorities going forward. The record of Phase 14's past two years cannot be measured by project progress percentages alone. During a period in which part of its onshore facilities were damaged by war, the project managed to restore its critical capacity within a short time, launch a large-scale reconstruction effort, and simultaneously boost offshore production.

Over these two years, thanks to the dedication of its specialists at Pars Oil and Gas Company and the cooperation of contracting firms, Phase 14 has emerged from one of the toughest operational crises it has faced. Today, with production continuing, reconstruction progressing, and the project moving toward final completion, it stands as one of the most active fronts in South Pars.