After the Israeli strike, Iran is restoring its strategic energy facility
More than a year after the Israeli attack on the South Pars gas field, Iran announces that it has completed 70% of the restoration at the Phase 14 refinery. The facility, which is vital to the Iranian energy sector, is expected, according to them, to return to full operation by the end of the year.
Iran announced today (Saturday) that restoration work at the Phase 14 refinery in the South Pars gas field, which was damaged in an Israeli strike last June, is 70% complete. The CEO of the Pars Oil and Gas Company, Touraj Dehghani, told the Iranian Ministry of Petroleum's news agency SHANA that the work is expected to be fully completed by the end of the year and that the damaged section will be fully returned to the production cycle.
The refinery is part of the South Pars field, one of the world's largest natural gas reservoirs, which Iran shares with Qatar. According to the Iranian company's data, the South Pars complex is responsible for more than 70% of Iran's natural gas supply, and therefore damage to the processing facilities in the area has significant implications for the country's energy sector.
The facility was damaged in June 2025 in an Israeli strike that caused a fire and a temporary halt to some of its operations. According to estimates published at the time, the damage halted production of about 12 million cubic meters of gas per day. Phase 14 was designed to process more than 56 million cubic meters of gas per day and also produce tens of thousands of barrels of condensate, a liquid hydrocarbon mixture with high economic value.
In recent months, Iran has been working to restore gas production that was affected by the strikes. At the end of May, Dehghani announced that three offshore platforms in South Pars had returned to producing gas. According to him, the platforms themselves were not damaged, but their operations were halted because the onshore processing facilities to which the gas was sent were damaged. To bypass the problem, production was diverted to other refineries in the area, in parallel with the restoration work on Phase 14.
The Iranian announcement is intended to show the recovery of energy infrastructure at a time when Tehran continues to deal with economic pressure, sanctions, and restrictions on its energy sector. In parallel with the restoration work, Iranian authorities are trying to reduce the vulnerability of the energy sector by distributing processing processes among different facilities in South Pars.
The move is intended to allow for continued gas flow even when some infrastructure is shut down for repairs. The importance of the field to the Iranian economy is particularly high, because a significant portion of the country's electricity, industry, and heating relies on natural gas, and any prolonged drop in production could exacerbate shortages during peak demand seasons.
