The ten commandments currently enforced to meet the country’s energy policies are as below :
1- Increasing or at least preserving Iran’s share in the
world oil market in the light of global increase in
demand for oil and gas.
2- Increasing investment in development plans for
exploration, exploitation and production of oil and
gas.
3- Increasing the share of gas in the basket of energy
consumption within the country through replacing oil
by-products with natural gas.
4- Taking steps towards export of gas to the
neighboring countries through pipelines and to other
world countries, especially the Far East , through
production of liquefied natural gas.
5- Following the policy of détente and cooperation with
other regional countries and OPEC member states
in an effort to play an effective role in supplying
energy ,stability in world oil market and obtaining
fair revenues.
6- Cooperation and talks with the European Union
and Asia-Pacific countries with an aim to create
stability in the energy market.
7- Mutual cooperation with other countries and
companies which have access to advanced
technology for oil exploitation in an effort to reduce
costs and optimize exploitation of oil reserves and
transfer of technology as well as upgrading national
technological potentials.
8- Encouraging the approach towards company
management and reform of the structure of
companies affiliated to the oil ministry and
facilitating regulations with an aim to optimize
productivity while taking advantage of the expertise
of the global oil companies during the past
decades.
9- Promoting the level of activities of Iranian
contracting and consultant companies for broader
contribution to investment in oil , gas and
petrochemical industries and employment of
potentials in domestic industries for the
manufacture of the equipment needed in the oil
and gas projects .
10- Attracting foreign technology and resources in the
implementation of oil and gas projects in an
effort to preserve Iran’s production quota through
employment of practical mechanisms , such as buy-
back schemes, that not only give no concessions
such as ownership right , to the investor but
preserve state ownership instead .To this end ,on
the one hand ,government’s need for investment
would be met and , on the other, optimal use of
oil revenues would be possible through
establishment of surplus oil revenues reserve fund,
while observing the principle that oil represents
national wealth and should be spent on long-term
investment projects in an effort to back up the
state economy.