India. China. the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. Armenia. Pakistan. Afghanistan and Sri Lanka also buy Iranian petroleum derivatives.

Kirkuk is not one of the three provinces that have been part of the autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq since 2003.

The next top producers were Canada (174 bcm – 4.8 percent) and Qatar (165 bcm – 4.6 percent).

Israel is estimated to have 200 to 400 nuclear warheads in its arsenal.

Sinopec said in March that it plans to boost Fuling'.s annual production capacity to 10 billion cubic meters from 7 billion cubic meters.

Iran'.s share in total reserves of the field is about 11 percent. Foroozan contains 3.432 billion barrels of in-situ oil reserves.

The recent arrests of around 30 clerics and intellectuals show that the king-in-waiting won’t tolerate dissent.

India imports oil to meet most of its growing energy demand.

Crude oil production from South Pars is in a trial stage. but output can be increased to as much as 150.000 barrels per day in future.

The battle between Naftogaz and Gazprom serves as a reminder. to some. that the Russians cannot be trusted.