VOL. XLIV

No. 07

12-February-2001

IRAN

Iran Announces Giant Offshore OilDiscovery

The National Iranian Oil Company(NIOC) has announced a giant oil discovery in the Gulf off Abadan, which isthought to be comparable in size to the recent Azadegan discovery that hasestimated oil in place of 26bn barrels and recoverable reserves of 5-6bnbarrels. Speaking on Iranian TV on 31 January, Seyed Mehdi Mirmoezi, ManagingDirector of NIOC subsidiary Petroleum Engineering and Development Company(PEDEC), said...