Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 47

21-November-2005

IRAN

Mansouri Oilfield Drilling Proves Up Additional Oil And Gas Reserves

Drilling in the Mansouri oilfield has revealed three new oil structures with oil-in-place amounting to 767mn barrels. Caretaker Minister of Petroleum Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh announced on 15 November that recoverable reserves from the three structures was estimated at 153mn barrels of oil and 860mn cu ms (30.4bn cu ft) of gas. He said that the new deposits would be...