VOL. XLIII

No. 04

24-January-2000

IRAN

Iran Investigates Using Brent Weighted Average As Benchmark For Western Oil Sales

The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) is considering using the International Petroleum Exchanges (IPE) Brent Trade Weighted Average (BWAVE) price as a benchmark for all its oil sales to Europe and Africa, in place of the three different price benchmarks it now uses for these regions.

NIOC currently bases its prices to different European and African customers on the Brent...