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TEHRAN (FNA)- Senior Iranian officials announced that the country would soon start taking legal action against 20 European firms for violating contract terms on the supply of equipment for its oil refineries. |
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The European Union banned all EU companies from supplying equipment to Iran's oil or gas industry in 2010.
"In the last few months, some of these foreign companies and especially some of those companies holding European licenses under contract with Iran have not adhered to their contractual obligations in the development of oil refineries," deputy oil minister Ali Reza Zeighami said according to an MNA report. "Nearly 40 foreign companies have not carried out their contractual obligations in the plans for oil refineries," said Zeighami, who is also the director of the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC). He said some goods and spare parts that Iran's oil refineries need had been received from foreign companies but that others had still not supplied equipment as they had agreed.
"Some of these companies have met their obligations through intermediaries... Iran will make a complaint about the other 20 foreign companies," Mehr quoted him as saying. …
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