An NIOC official announced that new shale gas reserves have been discovered in west Iran exploration blocks. Over the past four years, the market for shale oil and shale gas has taken off across the globe to the extent that the US has begun shale production which is an unconventional oil produced from oil shale…
National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) has affirmed adequacy of 29 international oil and gas companies willing to put in tenders for Iran’s upstream oil sector. NIOC intends to invite several rounds of tenders for a number of oil exploration & production (E&P) projects; accordingly, credible and qualified foreign E&P firms were asked to participate in…
Iran has increased its sales of crude oil as well as gas condensates to global energy giants Shell and BP. Director for International Affairs of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) Mohsen Qamsari was quoted by Press TV as saying that Shell and BP had purchased two to three consignments of oil from Iran over…
An NIOC official has reported on shipment of the first Iranian crude oil cargo to Italy’s Eni oil industry company in the post-JCPOA era. Executive Director for International Affairs at National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) Seyed Mohsen Ghamsari, while pointing to launch of oil sales to Eni in the post-JCPOA era, said Iran has so…
NISOC managing director said negotiations were underway way to launch oil cooperation with BP, Argentina’s YPF as well as China’s Sinopec and CNPC. Aiming at attracting maximum investment and modern technology, Iran’s Oil Ministry, in addition to introducing new model of oil contracts, dubbed as the Iran Petroleum Contract (IPC), has allowed National Iranian South…
France’s Total will equip Phase 11 of South Pars Gas Field with a pressure booster station to regularly pump two billion cubic feet of gas per day for nearly 20 years as part of a deal between Tehran and the French energy giant. Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh told Tasnim News Agency on Monday that…
Global energy giant British Petroleum (BP) has reportedly started a serious push to look into the prospects for making post-sanctions investments in Iran’s oil industry. Reuters said in a report that BP has formed a special task force to study Iran’s oil industry investment potentials in what could be a fresh sign of the growing…
National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and Polish state owned oil and gas company, PGNiG (Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo), signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Saturday, based on which the polish company will conduct primary studies on Iran’s Sumar oil field in the Iranian western province of Kermanshah, Shana reported. The MOU was signed…
A top official with National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) Mohsen Qamsari said on Wednesday that Iran’s oil exports to Europe has risen to 700,000 b/d. Iranian oil exports to European countries had nearly stopped during sanctions. After the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in January, the European countries resumed oil imports…
Iran said on Sunday it will soon sign six agreements with international energy giants over the development of its oil sector projects. Gholam-Reza Manouchehri, the deputy for engineering and development affairs of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), specified neither the companies nor the projects. Nevertheless, he did indicate that the projects were large scale….
