伊朗欲重占市场份额

Some 80 per cent of Iran’s oil contracts with Europe are operational, Iran’s oil export chief said on Saturday according to the ministry’s news agency SHANA, adding Tehran was continuing talks with major European oil companies to sell more.

Asked about Iran’s oil contracts to sell 600,000 to 800,000 barrels per day to the European buyers, Mohsen Ghamsari, the director for international affairs at the National Iranian Oil Company, said: “80 per cent of them are operational.”

Last week, Royal Dutch Shell resumed purchases of Iranian crude, becoming the second major oil firm after Total to restart trade with Tehran after the lifting of sanctions, trading sources said and ship tracking data showed.

Iran has been trying to claw back its market share since international sanctions were lifted in January and regaining a major buyer such as Shell will further aid its cause.