Posted on 04/18/2005 3:53:48 PM PDT by F14 Pilot
TEHRAN - Director for Frances oil giant Total in Iran Pierre Fabiani said that Total would continue its cooperation with Iran despite pressures from the United States, Iranian Students News Agency reported here on Monday.
He also said that Total is a professional company and does not meddle in the problems existing between the two countries Iran and the U.S. - adding, For us, it is a problem between Iran and the United States, at the first place we are a French company and at the second, Total is a European company and at the third, it is an international company and it only follows the sanctions imposed by France, European Union and the United Nations, other sanctions are not important for us.
The oil expert also said that Irans investment risks have decreased in recent years and Total is ready to invest in all economically feasible energy projects in the Islamic Republic. He said, Total is willing to invest, particularly, in Irans gas and oil production as well as energy development projects.
The country director of Total further asserted that Total pursues strategies it has been following for the last 10 years adding, Ten years ago, our company once again returned to Iran. It was the first company that regardless of the sanctions and other issues returned to the Islamic Republic. From then on, we have completed buyback projects like the Sirri A and E, South Pars phases 2 and 3 and Balal Oilfield.
He added that currently, the company is working on Dorud project that is slated to come on stream by early next year. Elsewhere in his remarks he commented on the buyback agreements and noted, The agreements are concluded only in one country in the world and that country is Iran because, Iran wants to save its natural resources for itself and the contracts - buyback agreements - are short-term solutions for that.
For us, it is a problem between Iran and the United States, at the first place we are a French company and at the second, Total is a European company and at the third, it is an international company and it only follows the sanctions imposed by France, European Union and the United Nations, other sanctions are not important for us.
The progression of the points made in this statement is not very logical.
French laugh at our funny sanctions on Terrorist regime of Iran.
Yep!
Why would they cancel the contracts?
for working with the former mullah regime.
How can they pay up from hell?
LoL
But seriously, I don't think Mullahs go to Hell though. Just like Saddam. They will be arrested and put in their own palaces to enjoy the rest of their lives.
Total is not going to like it when the mullahs are overthrown and the revolutionary government of Iran cancels their contracts without compensation.
Yep. And then we can hear them cry like they did when we invaded Iraq and nullified some of their contracts. Iran is next on our "hitlist", so France must like the idea of investing in countries that are about to be overthrown.
The Iraqi people loathe the terrorist enabling, dictator loving french. So will the Iranians.
Continue the boycott of France and the French companies. The best thing to ever come out of France was an empty bus.
We French armed Saddam even after the U.S. invasion (Bill Gertz, Treachery: How America's Friends and Foes Are Arming Our Enemies, Crown, 2004.)
We have no ethical conflict supporting the repressive, tyrannical regime because we have no ethics.
We welcome Islamists and antisemites in our own country, so are natural allies of the mullahs.
Total is the most corrupt oil company in the world. Don't believe it? Just check its activity in Africa and its years of playing footsie with every Muslim dictator from Indonesia to Morocco. Its activity in Iran as CFP (Compagnie Francaise de Petrole) and now at Total is scandalous.
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