The offshore section of the Phase 19 of the South Pars Gas Field in Iran was completed on Sunday with the installation of its last platform.

Topside 19B, weighing 1,640 tons, was successfully installed on the jacket of the platform, Shana news agency reported.

This was the last structure in the offshore section of the South Pars Phase 19 that can extract up to 14.2 mcm/d of gas, it said.

The platform, built at a cost of $150 million, will become operational in April after the hookup and startup operations are over.

Gas production from the phase began in April 2016 and has so far supplied 7.2 million barrels of gas condensate and 5 billion cubic meters of gas.

About 61 percent of the designing, engineering, construction, startup and operation of the phase was carried out by Iranian engineers and specialists, an official said.