Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 3

17-January-2005

IRAN

Shell Postpones Soroush Platform Start-Up After Pressure Vessel Failure

Shell has postponed the start-up of new production facilities in the Soroush field offshore Iran, after the failure of a pressure vessel on a recently-installed production platform. Shell had been producing oil from Soroush at a typical rate of around 60,000 b/d, by means of an early production system which was brought into operation in 2001 (MEES, 26 November...