Fire contained on platform in Iran’s South Pars gas field

What the report says

Iranian authorities said a fire on a gas platform in the South Pars gas field was brought under control, according to Al Jazeera’s report citing Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency. The incident took place on Tuesday in Phase 14 of the offshore field, which lies in Iran’s Bushehr Province and is the world’s largest offshore natural gas reservoir.

The Pars Oil and Gas Company said the blaze was extinguished quickly. Bushehr Province’s crisis management chief, Kourosh Dehghan, told Fars that 17 workers jumped into the sea during the emergency, prompting rescue operations. Later, provincial officials said all 17 were safe after reaching lifeboats and rescue craft, and that heavy rescue vessels had been dispatched to recover them.

Authorities were still examining what caused the fire, with a gas leak or an operational mishap among the possibilities mentioned by Fars. The report said the affected platform represents a relatively small share of South Pars output compared with the field’s total daily production.

South Pars is strategically important because Iran shares the reservoir with Qatar, which refers to its side as the North Dome. The field is central to Iran’s gas production, and any disruption there can draw attention because of its scale and regional energy significance.