Iran plans to launch six more offshore platforms at the South Pars Gas Field by March 2018, a report said.

The platforms will be installed at the remaining phases of the gas filed, which Iran shares with Qatar, Mohammad Meshkinfam, managing director of Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC), was quoted as saying in the Iran Daily report, which cited Shana.

The platforms are being built at the Khorramshahr Yard of Iran Marine Industrial Company (Sadra).

The structures will recover gas from the reserves of phases 13, 22, 23 and 24 of the gas field, said Meshkinfam, adding that a platform will be used for recovering gas from phase 14.

Each of the platforms will be able to recover 500 million cu ft of natural gas per day.