\ Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zangeneh For full coverage of Middle East business, see MEED Iran’s oil production is 3.8m barrels a day (b/d) and exports are running at 2m b/d, Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zangeneh told the Islamic republic’s parliament…
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Mystery over Japan LPG sale halt
For full coverage of Middle East business, see MEED Iran said on Wednesday it had stopped exports of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to Japan, but there were other customers available, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported. The report did not give…
Total gets 6 month Azadegan deadline
For full coverage of Middle East business, see MEED Total has six months to submit its technical bid for the development of the South Azadegan oil field which could still be awarded to other international firms, Iran’s deputy oil minister…
Iran to invite oil field development bids
For full coverage of Middle East business, see MEED In a long-awaited initiative to encourage foreign company participation in its upstream projects, Iran plans to invite international companies to bid for oilfield development rights in June, the Islamic Republic News Agency (Irna) reported this…
Iran-EU economic co-operation centre opens
For full coverage of Middle East business, see MEED The Iran-EU Centre for Economic Co-operation was opened in today in Berlin in a further sign of growing interest among European countries in doing business with the Islamic republic following the…
UK signs rail agreement with Iran
For full coverage of Middle East business, see MEED A memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the UK and Iran about rail transport has been signed during a visit to London by Islamic Republic of Iran Railways president Mohsen Pourseyyed Aghaei.…
Iran to increase power capacity by 35 per cent
For full coverage of Middle East business, see MEED Iran plans to increase its power generation capacity by 35 per cent from 74GW now to 100GW in 2020, Iran’s deputy energy minister Houshang Falahatian said today during a visit to…
Iran aims for 20m tourists
Deputy head of the Iran Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts & Tourism Organisation Morteza Movahed For full coverage of Middle East business, see MEED Iran’s aiming for 20m tourists in 10 years time compared with 5.2m foreign visitors in the year ending…
US expert calls for dialogue about Iran’s missile programme
For full coverage of Middle East business, see MEED The US should respond to Iran’s claim it doesn’t need missiles with a range greater than 2,000km and seek to codify that limit as part of a multi-track approach to containing…
GS Oil & Gas to resume South Pars work
For full coverage of Middle East business see MEED South Korea’s GS Energy has signed a deal to resume work on phases 6-9 of the South Pars gas project it withdrew from following the intensification of sanctions in 2011. The company…