{"id":5673,"date":"2023-05-27T13:36:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T13:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=5673"},"modified":"2023-05-27T13:38:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T13:38:04","slug":"new-offshore-onshore-hydrocarbon-exploration-operations-underway-nioc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/5673\/","title":{"rendered":"New offshore, onshore hydrocarbon exploration operations underway: NIOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p>Roydad Naft News Agency \u2013 The managing director of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) has said vast exploration operations are underway on 140,000 square kilometers of offshore and onshore hydrocarbon reserves to discover new deposits, Shana reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDomestic firms, including the National Iranian South Oil Company (NISOC), NIOC\u2019s Exploration Department, and the Oil Industry Research Institute of Iran, have joined hands to discover new oil and gas deposits across the country,\u201d Mohsen Khojasteh-Mehr told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khojasteh-Mehr made the remarks in his speech during a ceremony to commemorate the 115th anniversary of Iran\u2019s first oil exploration in Masjed Soleyman, southwestern province of Khuzestan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NIOC has a 100-year vision for exploration, he said, underlining, \u201cWe are determined to carry out maximum exploration operations in order to discover and maintain the country\u2019s reserves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early studies have been highly promising, indicating that there are still a large number of untapped resources in the country, especially in the oil-rich Khuzestan Province, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe number of oil and gas wells in Iran exceeds 3,500,\u201d he noted, adding that 70 percent of NIOC\u2019s gas fields and 50 percent of the country\u2019s oilfields were discovered after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the NIOC head, the discovery of hydrocarbon reserves has witnessed a considerable rise over the last 40 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the negative impacts of the U.S. sanctions, Iran has been taking new measures for ramping up its oil and gas production and exports over the past few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this regard, NIOC has signed numerous agreements with Iranian universities and knowledge-based companies for research in various fields of geophysics, geochemistry, unconventional hydrocarbon resources, and drilling.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2023-05-27T13:38:04+00:00\"> 27 May 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roydad Naft News Agency \u2013 The managing director of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) has said vast exploration operations are underway on 140,000 square kilometers of offshore and onshore hydrocarbon reserves to discover new deposits, Shana reported. \u201cDomestic firms, including the National Iranian South Oil Company (NISOC), NIOC\u2019s Exploration Department, and the Oil Industry [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,22,36,19,16],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-5673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-iran","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673","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=5673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5673"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=5673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}