The 19th batch of crude oil from South Pars Oil Layer in the Persian Gulf has been successfully loaded, marking the layer's first dispatch operation after the FPSO Cyrus incident in July.
FPSO Cyrus is the floating production, storage and offloading vessel on the hydrocarbon reservoir, which had a collision with the Panama-flagged SOL tanker last month due to bad weather conditions but again became operational in a couple days.
According to Shana, Oil Ministry's news portal, Iran began to extract crude oil from South Pars in March 2016 using FPSO Cyrus. The vessel has since shipped over 9 million barrels of crude in 18 operations. An average of 25,000 barrels per day is currently extracted from the oil layer. Hopes are high to increase output to 55,000-60,000 barrels per day in the next phases of production from the hydrocarbon layer.
