Iran Repairs Azadegan Alone

AhvazThe damaged field needs $10 billion to develop.

2 decades of departing foreign partners made sanctions Iran’s real capital problem.

Japan’s Inpex and China’s CNPC both withdrew under US pressure, leaving Iran to reverse-engineer drilling and injection technology alone.

NIOC targets 550,000 barrels a day, up from 205,000, against Iraq’s American-backed wells.