🔶 Fire breaks out on South Pars platform; workers are safe

Following a fire on the SPD14D platform in Phase 14 of South Pars, workers evacuated the platform using its lifeboats. According to reports by Iranian media, the fire occurred on Tuesday evening, 19 Aban (10 November), and was brought under control and extinguished through the efforts of rescue forces.

ISNA news agency, citing the South Pars Oil and Gas Company, reported on Wednesday morning, 20 Aban, that all workers are safe and that the transfer of personnel to land is ongoing.

Kourosh Deghani, the general director for crisis management at Bushehr Province, said that three heavy rescue and relief vessels were dispatched to the site of the fire incident, including two vessels from Deir Port and one from Asaluyeh.

This local official also said that due to stormy seas, it was not possible to transfer workers directly from the lifeboats to the rescue vessels; therefore, the lifeboats were towed with the help of rescue vessels.

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