A natural-gas platform made by an affiliate of Iran's Revolutionary Guards has sunk in the Persian Gulf, Iranian media said Wednesday, a setback for the country's efforts to respond to international sanctions.
A natural-gas platform made by an affiliate of
Iran
's Revolutionary
Guards has sunk in the
Persian Gulf
,
Iranian media said Wednesday, a setback for the country's efforts to respond to
international sanctions.
Technicians were trying to pull the $40 million, 1,300-metric-tons platform in
the South Pars field, the Mehr news agency reported, citing Sepehr Sepehri,
deputy manager of the company overseeing the field, state-owned Pars Oil and
Gas Co. Ltd.
The platform sunk to the bottom of the Gulf as it was being installed by POGC
and its builder, Iranian Marine Industrial Co, or Sadra, which is controlled by
the Guards.
The reason for the incident was unclear. A spokesman for Pars Oil and Gas
couldn't be reached.
Faced with a ban to import key oil technologies from the
U.S.
and
the European Union,
Iran
is building
its own oil equipment in order to achieve self-reliance.
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