VOL. XXXII

NO. 21

27-FEBRUARY-1989

IRAN EMBARKS ON REPAIR OF OFFSHORE FIELDS

(MEES Editor Ian Seymour, who recently returned from a visit to Iran - seeinterview with the Iranian Oil Minister in MEES, 13 February - reports on Iran'sefforts to restore production from its war-damaged offshore oilfields.)

At their peak, in the late 1970s, Iran's 11 producing offshore oilfieldshad a total capacity of around 780,000 b/d. However, these facilities wereespecially hard hit - by both Iraqi and US action -...