AFP: Gas- and oil-rich Iran has discovered another gas field with reserves of 495 billion cubic metres valued at $133 billion, the oil ministry’s SHANA news service quoted an oil official as saying on Monday.
Iran discovers $133 bln gas field
Iran gets 1 bln euros of India oil cash
Reuters: Iran has received 1 billion euros ($1.4 billion) from India in the last 10 days for long overdue oil debts, indicating the likely end of a sanctions-related problem that had blocked payments all year, an Iranian official said on Monday.
Kuwait denies joint oil development with Iran
AFP: The oil ministry in OPEC member Kuwait on Monday denied that it has started a joint oil development with neighbouring Iran.
Iran MP: Nuclear plant’s launch delayed again
AP: An Iranian lawmaker says the country’s first nuclear power plant in southern port of Bushehr faces more delays because of money demands from Russia.
Senators press Obama on Iran’s central bank
Wall Street Journal: More than 90 U.S. senators signed a letter to President Barack Obama pressing him to sanction Iran’s central bank, with some threatening legislation to force the move, an outcome that would represent a stark escalation in tensions between the two countries.
Iranian exiles demonstrate for UN, US protection
AFP: Some 200 people demonstrated at the European headquarters of the United Nations Monday, demanding US and UN protection for Iranian exiles at the Ashraf refugee camp in Iraq.
Iran arrests 17 youths over water fight
AFP: Iranian police arrested 17 boys and girls over a water fight at a seaside park in the Islamic republic’s south, a senior judicial official said on Sunday.
Iran’s new oil minister seeks $40 bln to develop shared fields
Reuters: Iran will need some $40 billion this year to spur the development of oil and gas fields it shares with neighbouring countries, Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi said in his first interview since being appointed to the post, published on Saturday.
Iran’s Salehi ‘hopes’ court will free Americans
AFP: Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi hopes the trial of two US citizens detained in the Islamic republic on espionage charges will lead to their freedom, reports said on Saturday.
Iran parliament to examine repeated pipeline explosions
Reuters: Iran’s parliament is to examine recent energy pipeline explosions to see to what extent sabotage or technical problems were to blame, a lawmaker said on Sunday, two days after an oil line blast which caused a jump in global crude prices.
