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Plans have been made to supply all Iranian households with natural gas by mid-2017, the oil minister said.
Speaking in a live TV program, Bijan Namdar Zanganeh added that the first priority…
The European Union is working on a political agreement that would set the stage for future energy deals in Iran, two people with direct knowledge of the talks said.
As oil prices continue their downward slide, most investors and firms are understandably eying prices, revenues and exploration costs.
Although a subsurface dam enjoys many advantages, their replacement with conventional ones is not feasible, the deputy energy minister said.
The ground should be prepared for Iran's private sector to participate, along with foreign companies, in oil and gas projects, head of the Energy Commission of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries…
Nearly half of 33 countries expected to face extremely high water stress by 2040 are in the Middle East, where surface water is limited and demand is high, said experts who ranked 167 nations.
West Azarbaijan Province launched 400 natural gas projects on Tuesday.
During the ceremony held to launch the projects, which coincided with Government Week (Aug. 24-30), managing director…
A senior Iranian official has called for conservative domestic use to increase the country's gas export potential.
Another tanker has left Iran's floating storage fleet, the fourth to detach from one of two flotillas based in the Persian Gulf since Iran's landmark nuclear deal on July 14.
Electricity is irreplaceable, which explains why most countries build their power plants inside their own territories and generate electricity by importing gas, said Oil Minister Bijan Namdar…
A deal on the construction of a nuclear power plant in Egypt could be signed during Wednesday's meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Egyptian…
India’s ONGC Videsh, the overseas investment arm of explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp, this month submitted a revised proposal seeking the development rights of Iran’s giant gas field Farzad B,…
Shahid Mofatteh Power Plant's dry cooling tower was inaugurated on Tuesday by President Hassan Rouhani during his trip to Hamedan Province on the occasion of Iran's Government Week (Aug. 24-30),…
US President Barack Obama has pledged to provide incentives to support investments in renewable energy, saying the industry will thrive despite opposition by Republicans and fossil-fuel suppliers…
Japan’s Kyushu Electric Power is shutting down as many as five oil-fired generation units and cutting power purchases from other utilities as it ramps up its Sendai nuclear reactor, in another…
Gas flow on the Shah Deniz pipeline carrying natural gas from Azerbaijan was halted by an explosion in Turkey on Monday evening, energy sector officials said, with one saying it was thought…
Iraq has paid foreign oil companies $9 billion in remaining arrears for 2014 and was paying outstanding fees for 2015 in stages until the beginning of next year, its oil minister said.
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The first geothermal power plant will be constructed in Meshkinshahr, Ardabil Province in northwest Iran, the energy minister said.
Speaking in a live TV program called “The Economy”, Hamid…
The water crisis in the country is more acute than previously anticipated with hundreds of plains and plateaus grappling with unprecedented declines in the respective groundwater resources, a…
Iran's Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh on Tuesday said oil prices are determined by global factors and he has no control over crude price-setting.
Critics have accused Zanganeh of…
Russia’s Rosneft, the world’s top listed oil company by output, is in talks with the UAE’s Mubadala Petroleum to jointly develop two east Siberian projects, Tass Yuriakh and Verkhnechonskoye, the…
Importance of cooperative water governance for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation and its contribution for maintaining security and stability, were the focus of a seminar held…
Iran needs to expedite measures to increase its production of oil and gas from joint fields, a senior official at the Presidential Office said at the weekend.
Mohammad Saeid Seif,…
Five phases of the South Pars Gas Field have been linked to the Sixth Iran Gas Trunkline, boosting the capacity for a potential increase in the volume of gas exports to the neighboring Iraq.
