Iran has warned China it could cancel a much-delayed $5-billion offshore gas exploration contract to
develop South Pars field in the Persian Gulf, Iran’s oil ministry announced on
Monday.
“There is a possibility of cancelling the contract signed in 2009 to
develop the South Pars gas field -- which holds around eight percent of the
world's gas reserves,” said oil ministry spokesman Alireza Nikzad. (Mehr News
Agency, 24 December)
South Pars, a huge offshore natural gas field shared between Iran and Qatar, holds one
of the world’s largest reserves of natural gas. China National Petroleum
Corporation (CNPC), China’s largest oil and gas producer and supplier, was
contracted for the project.
Iran has accused China in the past of failing to fulfill its commitments and delaying its contractual
obligations. It suspended a $16-billion contract with China last year for the
North Pars gas field.
“The Chinese side has stated it is not inclined to be part of the
project's (South Pars) development,” citing the “high risk” involved in
offshore exploration, Nikzad added.
Major Western companies that had been operating in South Pars, among
them France's Total and Anglo-Dutch Shell, withdrew from Iran between 2007 and 2010
after international sanctions were imposed over Iran’s controversial nuclear
program.
File photo: Land-based facilities at Assaluyeh, Iran, closest land pint to South Pars gas
field. (IRNA)
6 comments:
Why can't Iran get the job done on their own?
Meanwhile Qatar is extracting as much gas as they can, I don't know if there will be any gas left for Iran if these goddamned Mullah's are gone.
Ps: Why hasn't this site done an article on Chuck Hagel.
not even the Chinese are going to put any money into Iran until the theocrats stop lying ----or are gone.
Sad situation for the future of Iran as long as the mullahs and their damn regime remain in power.
Iran needs to get rid of dead beat regime and start anew.
A BRIGHT IDEA!
LET THE LAZY Chinese conglomerate pack and go! IRAN IS NOT SAUDI ARABIA and it only sad in this blog that is only dedicating its pages in potraying the REGIME in bad light seriously ignoring IRAN'S SUCCEES STRORY IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY THAT HACE BEEN KEY IN NUTRALISING THE FANGS OF SANCTIONS
sure, friend, those sanctions aren't hurting Iran's economy at all.....just like the Chinese are lazy ....and need Iran for anything much.
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