BP and Serica Energy received a conditional license from US authorities to continue operating a North Sea gas field partly owned by a subsidiary of Iran's state-owned National Iranian Oil…

Rhum Gas Field
<p class="rteindent1"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif">Iran and the UK have been cooperating in Rhum gas field in North Sea since December</span></span> <span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif">2005, when the field started pumping, until the imposition of the US-engineered sanctions against Iran.</span></span></span><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="rteindent1"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18px">It led to a stoppage of gas production from the field in 2010.</span></span></p>
<p class="rteindent1"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18px">Rhum gas field, which cost $565 million to develop, is shared equally by BP and the Iranian Oil Company, a subsidiary of the state-owned National Iranian Oil Company.</span></span></p>