Oil Made In Iran

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به بشکه ای زیر 50 دلار افت کرد

بهای نفت طی 5 ماه اخیر حدود 100 دلار در بشکه افت کرده است
برای اولین بار از ماه مه 2005 تاکنون بهای نفت به زیر بشکه ای 50 دلار افت کرده است که به نگرانی ها در مورد ادامه رکود اقتصادی و همچنین پیش بینی افت تقاضا مربوط می شود.

بهای نفت خام شیرین آمریکا به 49 دلار و 62 سنت رسید و نفت خام برنت در بازار لندن به بشکه ای 48 دلار و 90 سنت افت کرد.

به این ترتیب بهای نفت اکنون حدود دو سوم کمتر از 147 دلاری است که در ماه ژوئیه معامله می شد.

اعضای کارتل نفتی اوپک که ماه گذشته تصمیم گرفتند سقف تولید را یک و نیم میلیون بشکه کاهش دهند، قرار است روز 29 نوامبر بار دیگر دیدار کنند تا در مورد گام بعدی خود تصمیم بگیرند.

جاناتان کورنافل، مدیر واحد آسیای شرکت "هادسون کاپیتال انرژی" گفت: "فقدان هرگونه خبر مثبت در زمینه تقاضا و همزمان ادامه تلاطم در اقتصاد جهانی، به نقصان خبرهای خوب (در بازار نفت) منجر شده است."

بانک مرکزی آمریکا روز چهارشنبه گفت که انتظار دارد اقتصاد این کشور در نیمه اول سال آینده منقبض شود که به نگرانی در مورد افت تقاضا در بازار سوخت دامن زد.

ارقام منتشر شده از سوی "اداره اطلاعات انرژی" آمریکا در روز چهارشنبه نشان داد که ذخایر نفت این کشور هفته گذشته به میزان یک میلیون و 600 هزار بشکه افزایش یافته است که دو برابر رقم مورد انتظار بود.

همزمان آمارها در ژاپن نشان داد که این کشور در ماه اکتبر برای دومین بار ظرف سه ماه کسر تجاری داشته است و صادرات آن نسبت به مدت مشابه سال قبل 7/7 درصد افت کرده است.

همه این نشانه ها باعث شده سرمایه گذاران از خرید کالاهایی مانند نفت پرهیز کنند.

ایران هفته گذشته از اوپک خواست برای تثبیت بهای نفت اقدامات بیشتری صورت دهد. صادرات نفت خام حدود 80 درصد درآمد دولت ایران را تشکیل می دهد که این کشور را در برابر نوسانات شدید قیمت نفت آسیب پذیر می کند.

بهای نفت اواسط هفته گذشته به زیر 60 دلار رسیده بود که اکنون حدود 10 دلار دیگر در بشکه افت کرده است.

یک مقام بانک مرکزی ایران دو هفته پیش اخطار داد که اگر بهای نفت به بشکه ای زیر 60 دلار سقوط کند اقتصاد ایران "با مشکلات بزرگی روبرو خواهد شد."

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A top Iranian official said on Wednesday that French energy giant Total will have no "active role" in developing a huge gas field in Iran and that a new partner had been found for the project.

Total and Iran's National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) were to develop phase 11 of the offshore South Pars gas field in the Gulf.

"Total has declared in talks with NIOC that because of sanctions against Iran it cannot have an active role in the project and so a partner has been chosen to transfer the company's stake to," NIOC managing director Seyfollah Jashnsaz was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency.

He did not name the new company and also did not say whether Total is pulling out of the project completely.

Jashnsaz had told the Mehr news agency last month that Total and Iran were set to sign the deal to develop the gas field by March 20.

But he said on Wednesday that following an agreement with Total, "another partner will be added to the development of phase 11 of South Pars and the leading share will be transferred from Total to the new partner."

Total had a stake of 50 percent plus one share in phase 11 of South Pars, which has total reserves of about 500 trillion cubic feet (14 trillion cubic metres) of gas -- or about eight percent of world reserves.

Iran, OPEC's second largest oil exporter, also has the world's second largest natural gas reserves.

The development of the gas field has been pending for nearly five years since an initial 2004 agreement between Total, the Iranian company and Petronas of Malaysia.

The delay was caused by a rise in cost of the project and international sanctions on Iran over its nuclear drive, which the West suspects is a cover for ambitions to build atomic weapons.

Western governments have put pressure on international firms to cut ties with Iran because of the nuclear standoff.

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Iran needs $24 billion to complete oil projects this year and the lack of sufficient investments is a “challenge,” Etemaad reported, citing a ministry official.

The budget of Iran’s National Iranian Oil Co. for the calendar year starting March 20 has been cut by a third because of the fall in oil prices, Managing Director Seifollah Jashnsaz said, according to the newspaper.

Investment shortage is the state-owned company’s “most important challenge,” Jashnsaz said, without giving details of the projects.

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Shah & oil

1973 speech on oil independence

Says Iran would not renew unfair contract with oil corporations when it comes up for renegotiation in 1979 :


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUckaQaWYZE[/ame]

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Iran discovered a new oil layer and a gas field in the southwest and central parts of the country, Iran's Press TV reported Saturday.

The new oil layer forms part of the Band-e-Karkheh oil field northwest of Ahvaz, capital of Iran's oil-rich southwestern province of Khuzestan, Iran's Oil Minister Gholam-Hossein Nozari said.

The oil field's estimated reserves increased to 4.5 billion barrels with the discovery of the new layer, he added.

A gas field with an estimated reserve of some 169.8 billion cubic meters was also discovered in the central province of Fars, Nozari said.

According to Oil and Gas Journal, as of January 2009, Iran has an estimated 136.2 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, or roughly 10 percent of the world's total proven petroleum.

Iran's 2008 estimated proven natural gas reserves stand at some 26.8 trillion cubic meters, second only to Russia, according to Oil and Gas Journal.