Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh held separate meetings with CEO of OMV Rainer Seele, Eni’s Chief Upstream Officer Antonio Vella, Lukoil’s CEO Vagit Alekperov as well as two senior officials of France’s Total.
Rainer Seele, CEO of Austria’s OMV oil company, pointed to the favorable development of oil negotiations with Iran; “currently, the cooperation framework has been determined and the activities of OMW in Iran’s oil and gas industry will resume as soon as the sanctions are removed,” he noted.
Chief Upstream Officer of Italy’s Eni Antonio Vella, for his part, expressed satisfaction towards the progress of oil negotiations between Iran and Italy announcing Eni’s resumption of activities in Iran’s oil industry given the sanctions relief.