据MENAFN网站8月25日伦敦报道,荷兰皇家壳牌公司日前表示,该公司打算在对伊朗实施的制裁取消以后向伊朗国家石油公司(NIOC)偿还其所拖欠的20亿美元债务。
这家英荷跨国油气公司日前在德黑兰会见了伊朗石油部长赞加内和伊朗中央银行行长赛义夫,双方重点讨论了伊朗成为壳牌公司重要的潜在业务区的现状。
西方制裁使得伊朗的原油日出口量减少了一半,从2012年前的250万桶水平减少到了110万桶。由于石油收入大幅减少,伊朗很难支付保持本国生产工作效率所需的设备。
根据英国石油公司的世界能源统计回顾,伊朗拥有9.3%的全球探明石油储量,伊朗是全球第四大探明石油储量拥有国,仅次于委内瑞拉、沙特阿拉伯和加拿大。此外,伊朗拥有的天然气储量占到全球天然气总储量的18.2%。
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Shell plans to repay USD2b debt to Iran
MENAFN
25/08/2015
Royal Dutch Shell is intending to repay a USD2 billion debt to the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) after sanctions on Iran are lifted.
The Anglo"Dutch multinational Oil and Gas Company met Iranian oil minister and Central bank governor to discuss the status of Iran for being an important potential business area for the company.
Western sanctions have cut Iran's oil exports by half to 1.1 million barrels per day from a pre-2012 level of 2.5 million bpd, and with the loss of oil income it was hard to pay for the equipment needed to keep its production working efficiently.
Iran owns 9.3 percent of the world's proven oil reserves, the fourth largest after Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Canada, and 18.2 percent of the world's natural gas reserves, according to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy.