According to the company, Alireza Ebadi, the director of production control and operations at POGC, said the instructed production of gas from the joint offshore oil field in the first quarter of the year was realized.

He said on average, 585 mcm/d of rich gas was being produced from the field by Iran which shares the field with Qatar in Persian Gulf waters.

The official also predicted that gas production from the field would reach 600 mcm/d this calendar year given that a number of South Pars phase development projects would come on-stream by March 2019.