Total Confusion: French Energy Giant Still Wants to be Iran’s BFF
by John Little on 16/07/2008Last week the BBC said the deal was dead. Now, China View reports that the company never lost interest:
A senior official of French energy giant Total said that its company is interested in continuing cooperation with Iran in its oil and gas sectors, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Tuesday.
In a letter to Iranian Oil Minister Gholam-Hossein Nozari, Total Chief Executive Christophe de Margerie rejected recent reports on Total’s withdrawal from South Pars gas field, describing them as political propaganda, Mehr news agency quoted an unnamed Total official as saying.
“Total’s stance on Iran is quite clear. We are interested in continuing our activities,” the official said.
I’m still wondering if there isn’t more to this story than the “polticial propaganda” angle. Perhaps Iran gave a little unseen ground? Then again it’s not really hard to believe that Total is going for the oil and the BBC got their story wrong.
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