VOL. XLIII

No. 45

6-November-2000

IRAN

Iran And Japan Embark On Oil/Gas Development Partnership

With Japanese firms effectively frozen out of oil development and production activities in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, it seems that the Japanese Government has now decided to settle on Iran as its main prospective partner as far as upstream oil and gas development in the Middle East is concerned. This much at least is made clear in an important economic and energy protocol signed in Tokyo on 1 November by...