Bushehr, Jan 1, IRNA - Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh said on Thursday that production of natural gas in Irans South Pars gas field will increase to 100 mcm by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (ending on March 20, 2015).
Zangeneh made the remarks in his address to a meetings of a group of the Iranian lawmakers who were visiting the Assalouyeh gas production facilities in this southwestern province.
He referred to the South Pars gas field as 'Iran's industrial capital.'
The development of phases 12, 15, 16, 17 and 18 of the South Pars gas field are currently the top priority of Iran's oil ministry, said the minister.