Managing Director of Oil Industries' Engineering and Construction (OIEC) said the phases 20 and 21 will come on-stream with a daily production capacity of 50 mcm/d of natural gas.
Behzad Mohammadi told Shana that the phases will become fully operational by the end of the current year (20 March 2017) given the accelerated progress of drilling operations of onshore and offshore fields of the developments.
"Drilling operations over 11 wells of phase 21 will sew up within a month and 11 wells at phase 20 will be complete by mid-summer," said Mohammadi.
The OIEC chief further said topsides of the two phases will be fully installed at their designated spots by the end of autumn to late-December.
He also said gas can be extracted from 16 wells of 22 wells of the two phases.