VOL. XLIII

No. 48

27-November-2000

IRAN

NIOC Testing Oil Strike In The Gulf

The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) has made an oil strike near the South Pars gasfield in the Gulf, according to press reports on 19 November, when the daily Aftab-e Yazd said that NIOC had made the discovery called Daryam near the northern part of the South Pars gasfield and that the discovery well had yielded 3,000 b/d of oil.

MEES learns that a discovery has in fact been made by NIOC, but that the news of the find...