Fire breaks out on platform in Iran’s South Pars field

A fire has broken out on a platform in Iran’s South Pars gas field, but the situation is fully under control, Iran’s Fars news agency reported, citing the deputy oil minister.

The platform accounts for only 14.5 million cubic metres of South Pars’s total daily production of over 700 million cubic metres of gas, the news agency said.

Officials are considering either a gas leak or an operational accident as the cause, but the investigation is ongoing, according to the report.