Iran in talks with world oil giants: Official
Iranian Oil Ministry officials are negotiating with world oil giants to attract them back into Iran’s energy sector as nuclear talks with world powers make headway, a deputy oil minister says.
“Simultaneous with overtures at the international level and the success of nuclear negotiators, numerous [rounds of] talks are underway by senior [Iranian] Oil Ministry officials with renowned international companies,” Emad Hosseini said on Friday.
He added that Iran Oil Ministry is inviting international firms based on national interests.
“The upstream oil sector and development of joint fields, particularly South Pars [gas field], are among the priorities of the petroleum industry,” said Hosseini.
Last month, Mohammad Souri, a top aide to Iran Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, said world oil giants plan to return to Iran in light of the easing of sanctions against the Iranian energy sector.
“Companies like [Royal Dutch] Shell and British Petroleum (BP), Malaysia’s Petronas, Spain’s Repsol and several other big world oil and gas companies will return to Iran and oil activities with these companies will resume,” Souri said.
France’s Total and Italy’s Eni have also expressed willingness to resume work in Iran.
Earlier this month, Russia’s second largest oil producer, Lukoil, said the country’s oil companies are ready to return to Iran energy market.
On January 20, the Council of the European Union suspended part of the sanctions it had imposed against Iran following the nuclear deal between Tehran and the six world powers – the United States, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany – in Geneva, Switzerland, in November 2013.
By Press TV
http://theiranproject.com/blog/2014/02/21/iran-in-talks-with-world-oil-giants-official/
Pakistan-Iran cooperation best way to foil plots’
A high-ranking Pakistani official has described cooperation between Iran and Pakistan as the best mechanism to thwart the conspiracies seeking to undermine relations between the two neighboring countries.
“There is an understanding that some elements may be trying to create problems between Pakistan and Iran, and they should be dealt with in a coordinated manner,” Pakistan’s Foreign Office Spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said in her weekly press briefing in Islamabad on Thursday.
Aslam further noted that the recent abduction of five Iranian border guards and their transfer to Pakistan was discussed in a friendly atmosphere between senior Pakistani and Iranian officials in Tehran earlier this week.
She added, “As the Iranian president (Hassan Rouhani) has said, this relationship [between Iran and
Pakistan] is much deeper, much broader, it is between two peoples. It has social, religious, cultural and economic aspects. It has many dimensions.”
“We don’t see [how] these incidents can derail our relationship,” she pointed out.
Five Iranian border guards were abducted in Jakigour region of Iran’s Sistan-and-Baluchestan Province on February 6 and taken to Pakistani territory.
The so-called Jaish-ul-Adl terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the abductions.
On February 12, Iran Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs Ali Abdollahi said the country will dispatch a delegation to Pakistan to pursue the case of the five Iranian border guards.
On October 25, 2013, Jaish-ul-Adl killed 14 Iranian border guards and wounded six others in the border region near the city of Saravan in Sistan-and-Baluchestan Province.
In February, 2013, Iran and Pakistan signed a security agreement, under which both countries are required to cooperate in preventing and combating organized crime, fighting terrorism and countering the activities that pose a threat to the national security of either country.
By Press TV
http://theiranproject.com/blog/2014/02/21/pakistan-iran-cooperation-best-way-to-foil-plots/
Iran to send delegation to Pakistan to pursue IP gas pipeline project
TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran will send a delegation to Islamabad soon to pursue the construction of Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project in a bid to help the neighboring Muslim country overcome its energy crisis.
The Urdu-language Donya newspaper reported that the Iranian government has assured that Tehran will give a positive response to Islamabad’s request for extending the deadline for completion and implementation of the project of Iran-Pakistan gas transfer pipeline.
In relevant remarks on Tuesday, Pakistani Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi underlined that completion of Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project is one of the most important priorities of Islamabad’s economic development plans.
Addressing a ceremony for the grant of 12 petroleum concession agreements and exploration licenses to Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDC) and Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL), the Pakistani minister voiced Islamabad’s willingness to implement the IP project which would transfer Iran’s natural gas to the energy-hungry Southeast Asian country.
He further suggested that the timeframe set for commissioning the project should be extended.
Last week, a Pakistani source said that talks on setting new timeframe for the completion of the much-awaited IP gas pipeline project was started in Tehran after Islamabad sent a team of experts and officials to the Iranian capital to this end.
Iran has already built 900 kilometers of the pipeline on its own soil and is waiting for the 700-kilometer Pakistani side of the pipeline to be constructed.
The IP pipeline is designed to help Pakistan overcome its growing energy needs at a time when the country of over 180 million people is grappling with serious energy shortages.
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Messico e Guatemala costruiranno un gasdotto tra i due paesi
di Luca Pistone. Scritto il 21 gennaio 2014 alle 6:00.
Messico e Guatemala hanno in programma la costruzione di un gasdotto tra i due paesi, che darà ai produttori guatemaltechi accesso ad energia più a basso costo, ha annunciato il portavoce presidenziale guatemalteco, Francisco Cuevas.
Il gasdotto, che prevede un investimento di 1,2 miliardi di dollari, si estenderà per 600 chilometri tra la città messicana di Salina Cruz e il dipartimento guatemalteco di Escuintla.
I presidenti dei due paesi firmeranno i prossimi giorni un accordo bilaterale per l’avvio dei lavori, che termineranno entro il 2016. La compagnia petrolifera statale messicana Pemex costruirà 420 chilometri di condutture, mentre il Guatemala i restanti 180, riportano i media locali.
Il Guatemala non produce gas naturale, pertanto il gasdotto darà agli industriali locali la possibilità di accedere al gas messicano – particolarmente economico – in modo da essere più competitivi sul mercato nazionale.
http://atlasweb.it/2014/01/21/messico-e-guatemala-costruiranno-un-gasdotto-tra-i-due-paesi-579.html