Speaking to Shana, Hamidreza Masoudi said construction of the phase’s jacket was complete and preparations were under way to load it.

He further said drilling operations over 5 wells in the offshore phase would start by June.

Petropars is developing the project which was initially intended to be developed by a consortium of Total, CNPC International and Petropars, but the first two companies pulled out of the project after imposition of sanctions on Iran by the US.