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La Grèce achète depuis plusieurs mois son pétrole à l’Iran, les traders des autres pays lui refusant la vente, les banques jugant ces transactions trop risquées.

Greece turns to Iranian oil as default fears deter trade
« Iran is the only one who might be working on an « open credit»  basis right now, given its own difficulty in selling crude,»  one trader said.
- Greece in 2010 imported 46 percent of its crude from Russia, 16 percent from Iran, 10 percent from Saudi Arabia, 10 percent from Kazakhstan, 9 percent from Libya, 7 percent from Iraq
- Greece is relying on Iran: most of its oil as traders pull the plug on supplies and banks refuse to provide financing for fear that Athens will default on its debt
- lack of bank financing has forced Greece to stop purchasing crude from Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan in recent months
- 4 cargoes taking crude from the Middle East outlet of Sidi Kerir on the Egyptian Mediterranean to Greece in September. 3 sailed in October. All carried Iranian Heavy crude
- Iran is storing crude in four very large crude carriers (VLCCs) in the Red Sea.

Autres nouvelles Iran-Golfe-AIEA-OPEC

U.S. plans bomb sales in Gulf to counter Iran
U.S. is:
- building an integrated network to defend against short- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles from Iran
- building up the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, U.A.E., Kuwait) as a unified counterweight to Iran
- Pentagon is improving intelligence-sharing and military compatibility among the six countries coalition.

Iran’s statistics contradict OPEC data – Dalga Khatinoglu
- OPEC new report confirms dropping of Iranian oil output by 120,000 barrels during the current year
- OPEC’s new report published on Nov.: country’s production was 3.598 million in August and 3.601 million in September. With comparing the figure with 2006, Iran’s oil production has fallen by 0.5 mb/d
- OPEC’s Statistical Bulletin published in May reported that Nigeria surpassed Iran as OPEC’s second major oil export in 2010
- Iran’s OPEC Governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi announced last month that Iran restores its position as OPEC’s second exporter with 2.64 million barrels oil export in a day
Why is Iranian oil output being reduced?
- Iran is able to inject only 60 million cubic meters of natural gas per day to old oil wells
- Iran has to install electrical submersible pumps into the low-pressure oil wells to increase the production, but these devices have been banned to sell since 2008
- the lack of unified policy at the Oil Ministry is an insulting fact for Iranian oil industry
- he lack of enough foreign investment and high technologies.

Hiroshima governor on Iran’s nuclear quest
The West needs to address the « root causes»  of Iran’s nuclear quest, which he called « very concerning.» 
« We need to create the conditions where Iran feels it’s easier to stop stop their efforts,»  Mr. Yuzaki said.

Vyacheslav Danilenko denies Iranian nuclear role
« I’m not a nuclear physicist and I’m not the founder of the Iranian nuclear program,»  Vyacheslav Danilenko said, according to Kommersant, declining further comment. The Russian newspaper said Danilenko, 76, had worked from the 1950s at a Soviet nuclear-weapons research center until his retirement.

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