IRAQI RAIDS DELAY INSTALLATION OF IRAN'S SBM OIL EXPORT FACILITIES

Iranian plans to install new single-buoy mooring (SBM) export facilities may have been significantly delayed as a result of Iraqi air attacks last week, MEES understands.

In order to diversify its oil export facilities away from war-torn Kharg Island to more defensible locations, Iran is installing two SBM loading systems at Ganaveh on the mainland coast some 40 miles northeast of Kharg (MEES, 6 January). The first of...