Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 16

20-Apr-2009

IRAN

Privatization Of Irans Refining Sector Under Discussion

The Iranian government is to go ahead with plans to privatize oil refineries in line with its declared privatization program, a director of the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC) Minolta Eskandari has said. The Ministry of Petroleum and Iran Privatization Organization (IPO) are in talks to reach an agreement on the transfer of shares of the state-owned...