GENERAL
BACKGROUND
OIL
NATURAL
GAS
ELECTRIC
POWER
ENVIRONMENT
Sources
for this report include: Agence France Presse; AP Worldstream; BBC
Summary of World Broadcasts; Calgary Herald; CIA World Factbook 2002;
Deutsche Presse-Agentur; Dow Jones; Economist Intelligence Unit
Viewswire; Energy Compass; Financial Times; Foreign Broadcast
Information Service; Global Insight; Gulf News; Hart's Africa Oil and
Gas; Hart's Asian Petroleum News; Hart's Middle East Oil and Gas;
InfoProd; Interfax; International Herald Tribune; International
Petroleum Finance; Iran Brief; Middle East Business Intelligence; Middle
East Economic Digest; National Post; Nefte Compass, New York Times; Oil
and Gas Journal; Oil and Gas Investor; Petroleum Economist; Petroleum
Intelligence Weekly; Petroleum Report; Pipeline and Gas Journal;
Plastt's Oilgram News; Reuters; Stratfor; Time Magazine; Turkish Daily
News; U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Petroleum Argus;
World Gas Intelligence, World Markets Online.
Prospect
Iran is
the world’s fourth largest oil producer. It has the world’s second
largest gas reserves and fourth largest oil
reserves, as well as being quite rich
in minerals. Iran was a founding member of OPEC,
and is an important player in today’s
world oil market, with great potential for future oil
and gas discoveries and for increasing production and
exports.
Iran
has a strategic position in world
trade , bridging the economies of the East
and the West. geographically it links Central
Asia and the Caspian region to the
Persian Gulf and Indian – Ocean .The country is
now well past its revolutionary turmoil
and its foreign policy objective is
currently to minimize international and
regional tension and to promote dialogue
among civilizations and friendly cooperation
with other nations .
Twenty-three years after the triumphant 1979
Revolution , the Islamic Republic now follows
more pragmatic policies. It is liberalizing
trade and foreign exchange and thus
trying to attract foreign capital in all
sectors , especially oil , gas and petrochemicals.
Massive reconstruction has taken place
since the end of the eight-year
imposed war with Iraq in 1988 . Following
the opening of its hydrocarbon sector,
Iran has been successful in attracting
international oil and gas companies’ investments
, despite unrelenting U.S sanctions' policies .
Oil-driven economy to diversify
Accentuating
“ Gas “
The Hottest Petrochemical hub on the planet
Oil Ministry Energy
Policies
Raising necessary
funds , to be challenging
Seeking to redefine the
role of oil and gas
Economy integration
Leader’s emphasis
Power sector
Anticipations
