Petropars together with Enterprise Oil were awarded the South Pars VI/VII/VIII project and drilling commenced in July 2001 on the first of the three appraisal wells. After evaluation it was decided that a further 27 development wells offshore would be drilled over a three year period commencing in Summer 2002.

IOSC has been awarded the base services contract from Jebel Ali and will also provide support for the appraisal wells from Kish Island.

After Enterprise Oil was acquired by Shell, Petropars and Statoil came together to complete the development project of drilling 27 wells. Those wells have been very successfully drilled using the IOSC Kish Island base as the support base and the contract has continued into 2007.