VOL. XLV

No 41

14-October-2002

IRAN

NIOC Studying Exploration Of Moghan Blocks

The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) is studying the feasibility of an exploration program in the Moghan license areas, which were among the exploration projects offered to international oil companies under the buybacks program (MEES, 6 July 1998). The official news agency IRNA reported on 1 October that Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh told an audience in the city of Parsabad in Ardebil Province that a project to...