Abdollah Mehrabi said that with the completion of the ninth well in the first phase of the Kish Gas Field development project—owned by Pars Oil and Gas Company and contracted to Iran National Drilling Company—another step has been taken toward boosting production capacity.

He added that the completion of Well No. 4 in Cluster 2 of the onshore wells, the ninth well in the project, has increased production capacity to 630 million cubic feet of gas per day (equivalent to 18 million cubic meters), reaching nearly 65% of the planned production capacity.

The Kish Gas Field, with an estimated 40 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves, is recognized as the 17th-largest gas reservoir in the world. Upon full implementation of its development phases, it will generate production capacity equivalent to three phases of South Pars.

Once Phase 1 of the Kish Field development is completed in the coming years, 28.3 million cubic meters of gas per day will be fed into the national distribution network, helping to address the country’s energy imbalance.