TEHRAN - Iran and Norway explored avenues of cooperation in oil and gas industry’s upstream sector in Iran-Norway conference on upstream oil and gas technology and development cooperation which kicked off in Tehran on Tuesday.

During the conference, Gholamreza Manouchehri, the deputy managing director of National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) for development and engineering affairs, said Norwegian oil companies can cooperate with Iran’s oil industry in various areas including investment, and implementing methods of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and improved Oil recovery (IOR).

“Project management, quality assurance, consulting services and participation in the modernization of the oil and gas industry in upstream, midstream as well as downstream sectors could be other potent areas for cooperation,” Manouchehri noted.

 “Iran also welcomes Norwegian companies’ contribution in exploration projects and collection of flare gas in oil and gas facilities,” he added.

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