{"id":18280,"date":"2026-08-29T09:05:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=18280"},"modified":"2026-08-29T09:05:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:05:33","slug":"new-hydrocarbon-reserves-discovery-demonstrates-unstoppable-nature-of-oil-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/18280\/","title":{"rendered":"New hydrocarbon reserves discovery demonstrates unstoppable nature of oil industry\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0A member of the Energy Committee of the Parliament stated that the discovery of new hydrocarbon reserves indicates that the development of the oil industry has not come to a halt even under wartime conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Mostafa Nakhaei, in an interview with SHANA, described the development of oil and gas fields under wartime conditions as a testament to the unstoppable momentum of the oil industry, and said: &#8220;The discovery of such reserves is good news that can create favorable conditions for the country&#8217;s energy future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He considered the development of the oil and gas industry among the country&#8217;s main priorities, and added: &#8220;Although part of the oil industry was damaged during the imposed war [the Iran-Iraq war], the Oil Ministry has nonetheless carried out appropriate measures during this period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The member of the Energy Committee emphasized: &#8220;The discovery of new hydrocarbon reserves shows that the oil industry continues to move forward despite limitations, and sanctions cannot hinder its activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nakhaei described the oil industry as the driving force and locomotive of other industries, stating: &#8220;The development of this industry will undoubtedly stimulate other economic sectors as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;This news (the discovery of new gas reserves) shows that the Oil Ministry has been able to move work forward under difficult economic conditions, which is worthy of appreciation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad announced on Monday (August 22, 2026) [1st of Shahrivar], coinciding with Government Week, the discovery of over 7,500 billion cubic feet of gas in the south of Fars province. Based on this, with a recovery factor of about 72%, it is possible to extract approximately 5,700 billion cubic feet of gas from this field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A member of the Energy Committee of the Parliament stated that the discovery of new hydrocarbon reserves indicates that the development of the oil industry has not come to a halt even under wartime conditions.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,17,22,36,19,16,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-18280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-economy","category-iran","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18280","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=18280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18282,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18280\/revisions\/18282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18280"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=18280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}