Iran

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April 16, 2017
Iran, holder of the world’s biggest natural gas reserves, boosted output by inaugurating six projects at the giant South Pars offshore field.
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April 04, 2017
The overseas arm of India’s biggest oil and gas explorer intends to spend more than $3 billion on Iran’s Farzad-B natural gas block.
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April 03, 2017
Qatar Petroleum plans to start a new development in the offshore North field, ending a 12-year ban on new projects that allowed the company to assess how its current rate of extraction affects the giant reservoir it shares with Iran.
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March 29, 2017
Gazprom and National Iranian Oil Company have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Moscow.
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March 07, 2017
Iran’s crude-oil exports touched 3 MMbpd for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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February 23, 2017
Iran is hard at work gaining a foothold in the global energy market, and it’s not letting U.S. President Donald Trump’s confrontational tone stop it from trying.
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February 08, 2017
OPEC and other major crude-producing nations may need to extend output cuts into the second half of the year to re-balance the market, oil ministers for Iran and fellow group member Qatar said.
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February 06, 2017
Oil traded near $54/bbl as increased tension between Iran and the U.S. countered expectations of rising American production.
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February 03, 2017
Oil headed for a third weekly gain as the U.S. imposed fresh sanctions on Iran after a missile test and OPEC reached about 60% of its output-cut target.
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February 03, 2017
Tensions between the U.S. and Iran escalated as President Donald Trump prepared new sanctions and told Tehran it’s “playing with fire,” prompting Iran to respond that it won’t be bullied.
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January 30, 2017
Lukoil is seeking opportunities for growth in the Middle East as Iran opens more of its oil fields to international partners, according to the Russian energy company’s regional head.
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January 20, 2017
Halliburton has signed a contract with Shell Iraq Petroleum Development to provide drilling services for sustained production at Shell’s Majnoon oil field in Southern Iraq.
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January 2017
Hurricane force winds led to a multi-well fire on a 30-well production platform. In spite of continuing adverse conditions, well control specialists were able to safely extinguish the blaze in 64 days, 25 of which were non-productive due to the weather.
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January 03, 2017
Iran qualified 29 international oil companies to bid in upcoming tenders for crude and natural gas development projects as the Persian Gulf state seeks investment in energy.
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December 22, 2016
Malaysia’s state-owned energy company Petroliam Nasional Bhd signed an agreement to study two oil fields in Iran, joining international companies from Russia to France that plan to help boost the Persian Gulf nation’s oil and gas production.
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December 20, 2016
Few countries have benefited from the oil market’s 2016 recovery like Iran.
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December 14, 2016
Russian companies including Gazprom PJSC signed a raft of initial agreements with Iran that could lead to contracts worth billions of dollars, as Energy Minister Alexander Novak outlined Russia’s ambition to become a major investor in the Persian Gulf nation.
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December 07, 2016
Royal Dutch Shell and Total will sign initial agreements on Wednesday to develop oil and gas fields in Iran, in the first European petroleum deals in the Persian Gulf country since sanctions eased earlier this year, an Oil Ministry official said.
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November 29, 2016
An OPEC deal to curtail oil production appeared in jeopardy as Iran said it won’t make cuts while Saudi Arabia insisted Tehran must be willing to play a meaningful role in any agreement.
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November 29, 2016
Oil retreated below $46/bbl in New York after OPEC officials failed to work out a compromise deal to ease a global supply glut and Iran ruled out reducing its production.
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November 26, 2016
Iran is assessing a proposal for a collective OPEC output cut, but hasn’t announced any commitment to reduce its own production as the group tries to end disagreements about how to share the burden of supply cuts ahead of a meeting in Vienna.
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