Iran says 40% of capacity at its giant gas field has been restored
In March, an Israeli strike on Iranian facilities in the South Pars gas field marked a significant escalation in the war, prompting a furious Iran to attack major energy facilities of its Gulf neighbors, sending oil prices surging, and leading US President Donald Trump to threaten to “blow up” South Pars if Iran didn’t stop.
Vahid Salemi/AP/File Iran said that 40 percent of the damaged capacity of the South Pars gas field has been restored, according to the semi-official news agency Fars – adding, however, that it will take at least two years to rebuild the facility attacked by Israel this year.
Natural gas refineries at the South Pars gas field on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf, in Asaluyeh, Iran, on March 16, 2019.
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