{"id":1484,"date":"2022-09-13T17:38:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2022-09-13T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:38:09","slug":"iran-says-fire-at-oil-field-has-been-extinguished-amid-claims-of-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/1484\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Says Fire At Oil Field Has Been Extinguished Amid Claims Of Sabotage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p>Iranian oil officials said a fire at the southwestern Shadegan oil field has been extinguished amid claims that the blaze was an act of sabotage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire\u00a0broke out early on September 13\u00a0after &#8220;tampering by unknown elements,&#8221; but it was quickly brought under control, Qobad Nasseri, head of the Maroon Oil and Gas Production Company which exploits Shadegan, told state television.<br><br>The state news agency IRNA said the blaze had been extinguished.<br><br>&#8220;The damage is being evaluated but the field will return to production shortly,&#8221; Nasseri said.<br><br>The fire apparently occurred at one of around 20 active wells in Shadegan, whose estimated production capacity is about 70,000 barrels per day.<br><br>Shadegan is located in Khuzestan Province, home to Iran&#8217;s Arab minority, which has long been the scene of anti-government unrest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2022-09-13T17:38:09+00:00\"> 13 September 2022<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iranian oil officials said a fire at the southwestern Shadegan oil field has been extinguished amid claims that the blaze was an act of sabotage. The fire\u00a0broke out early on September 13\u00a0after &#8220;tampering by unknown elements,&#8221; but it was quickly brought under control, Qobad Nasseri, head of the Maroon Oil and Gas Production Company which [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,23,22,36,19,16],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-hse","category-iran","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}