Iran has drilled three in-fill wells at South Pars, adding 5.1mn m3/d (180mn cfd) to raw gas output at the 700mn m3/d (25bn cfd) giant offshore gas field. Touraj Dehghani, CEO of operator South Pars Oil and Gas Company (SPOGC), said on 27 July that the third well was drilled at Phase 19 and connected to production platforms, adding 1.6mn m3/d (57mn cfd) of output. SPOGC’s in-fill drilling program aims to connect 35 new wells to 17 existing platforms. The wells should provide output of 36mn m3/d (1.27bn cfd), helping reverse some natural declines. Mr Dehghani says more wells will be drilled in the coming months. South Pars gas is processed onshore at 13 processing facilities at Assaluyeh in Bushehr province, which can produce 600mn m³/d (21bn cfd) of sweet gas, equivalent to 75% of total Iranian sales gas output. A 500mn cfd onshore train at the Phase 14 onshore gas processing plant was damaged by Israeli strikes in June (MEES, 4 July).