VOL. XLII

No. 32

9-August-1999

IRAN

Takin Calls For De-Politicization Of NIOC

In a wide-ranging paper on the Iranian oil industry, Mr.Manouchehr Takin, formerly with National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and theOPEC secretariat and currently with the Center for Global Energy Studies, hasproposed the de-politicization of the Iranian oil industry in general and NIOCin particular. Mr. Takin suggested, in a paper delivered at the IBC conferenceon petroleum investments in the Middle East in Dubai last...