National Iranian Oil Company

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National Iranian Oil Company

Iranian company

Also known as: NIOC

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Iran
Mining
The government-operated National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) produces petroleum for export and domestic consumption. Petroleum is moved by pipeline to the terminal of Kharg (Khārk) Island in the Persian Gulf and from there is shipped by tanker throughout the world. Iran’s main refining facility at Abadan was…
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The government-operated National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) produces petroleum for export and domestic consumption. Petroleum is moved by pipeline to the terminal of Kharg (Khārk) Island in the Persian Gulf and from there is shipped by tanker throughout the world. Iran’s main refining facility at Abadan was…
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Iran
The growth of social discontent
…under the auspices of the NIOC and initiated a standard seller-buyer relationship between the NIOC and the oil companies. The shah was acutely aware of the danger of depending on a diminishing oil asset and pursued a policy of economic diversification. Iran had begun automobile production in the 1950s and…
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…under the auspices of the NIOC and initiated a standard seller-buyer relationship between the NIOC and the oil companies. The shah was acutely aware of the danger of depending on a diminishing oil asset and pursued a policy of economic diversification. Iran had begun automobile production in the 1950s and…
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