TEHRAN (ECOIDEAL)- Senior Iranian and Norwegian officials in a meeting discussed ways to further broaden oil and gas cooperation between the two countries.
Iranian Envoy to Norway Mohammad Hassan Habibollahzadeh and Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy Terje Soviknes reviewed cooperation in the fields of oil and gas and renewable energies.
Habibollahzadeh voiced Iran’s readiness to take advantage of Norwegian companies’ experiences, technical knowledge and investment.
Soviknes, for his part, welcomed increasing presence of the Norwegian oil and gas firms in Iran.
He referred to the opening of Institute for Energy Technology office in Tehran as a positive step in developing cooperation between two countries in oil and gas and renewable energies fields.
Iran's Research Institute of Petroleum Industry and Norway's International Aker Solutions Company signed a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in 2016 to broaden their cooperation in the field of oil industry.
"According to the MoU, the two sides would cooperate to develop new technology in Iran's oil industry and transfer of advanced technology," Deputy Head of Iran's Research Institute of Petroleum Industry Amir Abbas Hosseini said.
He underlined that Norway is a symbol for advanced technology across the globe to apply the state-of-the-art technology in the oil industry.
"Iran will cooperate with Norway to modernize national oil industry," Hosseini said while referring to Aker as one of the forerunner companies in upstream and downstream oil industry.
Source: Farsnews