{"id":18056,"date":"2026-08-15T14:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T14:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=18056"},"modified":"2026-08-15T14:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T14:32:24","slug":"nioc-oil-spills-unlinked-to-irans-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/18056\/","title":{"rendered":"NIOC: Oil spills unlinked to Iran\u2019s facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0The CEO of the National Iranian Oil Company dismissed social media reports linking oil pollution and slicks in the sea near Qeshm Island to Iran\u2019s oil facilities, saying the company has only limited facilities in the area and they are currently shut down for maintenance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"item-body\">\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hamid Bovard said Saturday, Aug. 15, that NIOC has very limited facilities on Qeshm Island, which are currently inactive due to maintenance work. The company does not have extensive oil production facilities in the area, he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIf there are oil slicks, their cause could be linked to the US-Israeli enemy and the war they have launched in the region,\u201d Bovard said. He added that tankers or other vessels passing through the Persian Gulf could potentially be responsible.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bovard rejected reports by what he called hostile media outlets alleging that oil had been discharged into the sea, saying such claims are technically unfounded and contrary to the assessments of informed experts.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He said operations at all oil facilities are being properly managed through coordination among various divisions of the Oil Ministry and NIOC under the leadership of Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThere is no pollution in the oil production or loading cycle,\u201d Bovard said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CEO of the National Iranian Oil Company dismissed social media reports linking oil pollution and slicks in the sea near Qeshm Island to Iran\u2019s oil facilities, saying the company has only limited facilities in the area and they are currently shut down for maintenance.\r\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,23,22,36,19,16,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-18056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-hse","category-iran","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18059,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18056\/revisions\/18059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18056"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=18056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}