Iranian Naft Airlines, a homebound charter airline providing passenger and cargo services to Iran’s Ministry of Oil, said it received the first Boeing jet. The aircraft, one of the four Boeing 737 single-aisle jetliners bought from the US aviation company, was delivered to Naft Airlines on Sunday, its Managing Director Nurollah Rezai Niyaraki said on…
Iran’s August crude oil exports jumped 15 percent from July to more than two million barrels per day (mbd), according to a source with knowledge of its tanker loading schedule, closing in on Tehran’s pre-sanctions shipment levels of five years ago. The No. 3 OPEC producer has more than doubled its crude exports, excluding the…
An Iranian official announced Mon. the official inauguration of a new port in Kazakhstan’s city of Aktau by the docking of an Iranian ship there. Ali Akbar Ghonji, Managing Director of the Khazar Sea Shipping Lines, announced that Aktau international seaport in Kazakhstan has been officially inaugurated by Kazakhstan’s private sector following the docking of…
Deputy oil minister announced that Iran has achieved the technical knowledge to produce polypropylene as a strategic petrochemical product. Director of the National Petrochemical Company (NPC) Marzieh Shah-Daei pointed to opening and official operation of the first semi industrial polypropylene manufacturing unit in the country’s petrochemical industry saying “the new unit aims to produce an…
Iran has exported about 8 million barrels of crude oil from North Azadegan oilfield since the beginning of current Iranian calendar year (March 20), Shana quoted Keramat Behbahani, the operator of project for developing the oilfield, as saying on Tuesday. North Azadegan is one of the five oilfields, dubbed the West Karoun oilfields, Iran shares…
NIGEC managing director said Iran is likely to hire existing pipelines to conduct gas exports to the European market. While construction and operation of LNG production projects in southern Iran remains as one major route for exports of gas to the European Union member states, pipelines still mark one possible scenario for gas exports to…
Iranian VP Ebtekar who is visiting Vienna signed an MoU, jointly with Agriculture Minister of Austria Andrä Rupprechter, to expand environmental cooperation between Iran and Austria. “My Austrian counterpart paid a visit to Tehran in last year which led to signing a general agreement and the document signed today is an executive agreement for Joint…
French parliamentarian upbeat with fresh Tehran-Paris cooperation President of French National Assembly Claude Bartolone said on Wednesday that his visit to Tehran indicates fresh round of cooperation between Iran and France in light of nuclear agreement. Larijani, Bartolone discuss terrorism, bilateral ties Iran’s Parliament speaker has received President of French National Assembly before a joint…
Iran and France have stepped up their efforts to restore their economic relations following last year’s nuclear agreement. Iran’s Ambassador to Paris said on Saturday that the country is making plans for the visit of French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault to Iran for the formation of a joint economic commission in the next few months….
British Airways is to resume direct flights to Tehran later – the first UK carrier to fly to Iran for four years. Six return flights per week will operate between London Heathrow and Tehran, which BA described as “an important destination”. It follows the lifting of some sanctions against Iran in January and the reopening…
