Final UN annex records destroyed crude-storage capacity at Abadan

The mission recognized Iran’s engineering, architecture and planning expertise. It identified building-material development and improved local construction methods as specific areas where additional...

The mission reported seeing signs that explosive charges had been detonated in Qasr-e-Shirin manholes. The annex recorded this observation alongside damage to underground pipes from buildings,...

The annex reported that only 360 of Iran’s 618 oil wells could operate without destroying reservoirs. Its assessment distinguished safely usable wells from the total number, illustrating a...

Iran was flaring about 1.26 billion cubic feet of gas daily, the annex reported, equivalent in energy to 200,000 barrels of oil per day. This measured wasted gas energy, not an additional quantity...

The annex linked unavailable compressors, turbines and gas-treatment equipment to Iran’s hard-currency shortage. It described reinjection for reservoir pressure and methanol production as possible...

The annex reported Kharg’s east and west terminals still 75 percent damaged, while the east T-jetty trestle had been rebuilt to about 90 percent of its prewar condition. Recovery of a pier did not...

NIOC told the mission that a Korean company had received a contract to build five one-million-barrel tanks and one 500,000-barrel tank at Kharg. The annex recorded a reconstruction contract, not...

The mission noted that southern-field cost estimates included technological updating and gas-reinjection facilities. It argued that these items should not all enter an accounting of strictly...

High-capacity, high-pressure pumps and drives required costly imported equipment, the annex explained. Once equipment was available, pumping stations could restart in weeks or a couple of months,...

After attacks, pipelines on the northbound Abadan route were rerouted and buried in two major areas. Station equipment was placed underground or shielded with sand-filled concrete blocks; these...