NIGC talks business with French majors

On the sidelines of the World Gas Conference in Paris, the chief executives of 15 French companies including Total, Technip, Schneider and Vinci Energy held direct talks with the managing director of National Iranian Gas Company Hamidreza Araqi to discuss opportunities in Iran.

According to  NIGC, he also met with France’s MEDEF which brings together French entrepreneurs.

MEDEF comprises 100 big French companies including Total, Airbus, banks and investment companies involved in energy, power transmission, refinery construction, oil and gas storage and other sectors of oil and gas industries.

Araqi said NIGC offered 18 major projects for investment in Paris. They included IGAT-9, IGAT-11 and the completion of IGAT-7 and storage projects.

He said that different ways of investment including build-operate-own (BOO), build-operate-transfer (BOT) and foreign direct investment (FDI) were discussed.

 

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