Already the capacity of the country’s oil production is more than 4.3 million barrels per day, Seifollah Jashnsaz, NIOC managing director said.
Iran’s oil industry attracted some $10 billion in investment during the past Iranian year which ended on March 21, 2009, Jashnsaz said.
Iran intends to offer some of its oil and gas fields to foreign investment to help increase production to 5.3 million bpd by 2015, up from the present 4.3 million bpd.
Jashnsaz also noted that the capacity of natural gas production of the country has attained 500 million cubic meters (mcm) per day, from 300 mcm per day in the few previous years.
