TEHRAN – Initial operations in the phases 6, 7, and 8 of the South Pars Gas Field are to start this summer, a Petropars official said on Thursday.

“So far, the project has cost more than one billion dollars,” Enshaian claimed, adding that the major operation in these parts of the field is slated for next April. The project is estimated to produce 80 million cubic meters of soar gas and 120,000 barrels of gas liquids every day as well as 72 million tons of liquid gas per year, he added.

The project is now 92 percent complete.

Some 14,000 jobs have been created since the development plans for the phases 6,7 and 8 started, Enshaian said. The soar gas which is extracted from these phases will be transferred southward through a 512-kilometer pipeline.

This volume of gas will then be injected into Aghajari oilfield in Khuzestan in order to boost the field’s oil recovery rate.