Operations to install the P4 platform, built by Iranian experts, in Iran's offshore Persian Gulf Reshadat oil field, 110km Southwest of Lavan island, will start next week, Fars News Agency reported.
According to the oil ministry's website Shana, the Tasdid Marine Structures Development Co. built the 229-foot high, 3,100-ton structure, which will be installed in the Reshadat field, 68 miles southwest of Lavan Island.
According to Tasdid Marine Structures Development Co. managing director Amir Panahi," Once in operation, the platform will produce 75,000 barrels of oil daily. The P4 platform in the Reshadat oil has a weight of 3100 tons, which will increase to 4500 tons following the installation of stabilizing pillars." Panahi added that a structure weighing 9,000 tons would be installed on the platform.
Panahi said Tasdid Marine Structures Development Co. engineers were responsible for all stages of design, purchase, construction, loading, transfer and installation of the platform and if the project had been subcontracted out to a foreign company it would have cost 1.5 to 2 times more.
The Reshadat oilfield P4 platform was ordered by the Falat Qarreh (Continental Plateau) Oil Company.
The old Reshadat oil field came on stream in 1969 and was devastated by Iraqi warplanes and US naval forces during the Iraqi-imposed war in 1986. The oil production was halted for four years, and then Iranian oil industry personnel could repair the field. The field is located in the Persian Gulf, 110km south-west of Lavan Island.