An Iranian energy official says gas production from the South Pars field will increase to 280 million cubic meters per day by the end of the current Iranian year (beginning March 20).
"Currently about 250 to 260 million cubic meters of gas per day are extracted from the joint South Pars field," Press TV quoted Managing Director of Iran's Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC) Mousa Souri as saying on Tuesday.
Souri added that this amount would be increased to 280 million cubic meters by the end of the year.
The Iranian official added that the South Pars gas production is expected to hit 800 million cubic meters per day in four years, SHANA reported.
South Pars covers an area of 9,700 square kilometers, 3,700 square kilometers of which are in Iranian territorial waters in the Persian Gulf. The remaining 6,000 square kilometers are in Qatari territorial waters.
The Iranian gas field has 14 trillion cubic meters of natural gas (about eight percent of the world's reserves) and more than 18 billion barrels of LNG resources.
Iran has the world's second largest natural gas reserves after Russia.