IRI to open largest Persian Gulf oil platform next week

The operation to install the P-4 platform in Reshadat oil field as the largest oil rig in the Persian Gulf will be completed next week, the managing director of TASDID Offshore Development Company said.

Amin Panahi described the dimensions of P-4 platform as 42 meters long and 43 meters wide platform with the height of 70 meters.

The platform weights 3,100 tons which by adding the weight of its stabilizer legs will reach 4,050 tons. The installation of 9,000 tons of marine structures over the platform has been planned, the official stated.

“After the start up operation of the platform, 75,000 barrels of oil per day will be added to the country’s oil production,” the managing director of TASDID Offshore Development Company said.

The platform was designed, built, and installed by Iranian engineers. The construction of the platform by Iranian experts has saved the country a lot of foreign exchange, Panahi said.

The old Reshadat oil field came on stream in 1969 and was devastated by Iraqi warplanes and US naval forces during the Iraqi-imposed war in 1986. The oil production was halted for four years, and then Iranian oil industry personnel could repair the field. The field is located in the Persian Gulf, 110km south-west of Lavan Island.