Bloomberg | Grant Smith and Golnar Motevalli: He survived a bombing that left him badly wounded, shrugged off accusations of arms smuggling, and defended Irans oil interests through war and sanctions. Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, who died on Saturday, was one of the ultimate OPEC negotiators. Kazempour -- steely, charming, and combative -- was Irans ...

SHANA -- Sun Xiansheng, Secretary General of the International Energy Forum (IEF), sent a letter of condolences to Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh on the death of Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, Irans representative at the board of governors of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The following is the ...

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SHANA -- Iran's OPEC Governor Hossein Kazempour Ardebili died early Saturday after suffering a brain hemorrhage and spending nearly two weeks in a coma. He was a veteran negotiator and shepherded Iran's oil policy in OPEC. Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh immediately expressed his deepest feelings about Mr. Kazempour's demise. He ...

Reuters - Irans OPEC Governor Hossein Kazempour Ardebili is in a coma after a severe brain haemorrhage, SHANA, the news site of the Iranian oil ministry, reported on Sunday. He was hospitalized on Friday, SHANA said, without providing any additional details. Kazempour Ardebili is a key figure in Irans oil industry and served as the countrys deputy ...

IRNA Iran's Representative to OPEC said on Thursday that Tehran supports the decision of the majority of the OPEC member states on output cuts. Hossein Kazempour Ardabili made the remarks concurrent with a visit to Vienna of Iran's Oil Minister Bijan Zangeneh to participate in the 177th meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ...

Press TV - Iran is carefully monitoring the next steps by some OPEC members and their allies which have arbitrarily ramped up oil production, leading to a crash in prices. They are to meet in Vienna on Thursday and Friday toward a deal to reduce output, but Iran's OPEC governor Hossein Kazempour Ardabili believes an agreement is unlikely to be reached....

Reuters - Qatars decision to quit OPEC shows the frustration of small producers at the dominant role of a Saudi and Russia-led panel, a top Iranian official said, adding that any supply cuts should come only from countries that had increased output. The comments underline tensions within the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ahead ...

SHANA - Irans OPEC Governor said imposing sanctions on Irans oil industry was not practical, adding, Mr. Trump is fuming at the failure of some countries to build surplus output capacity to offset oil shortages in the market by removing Iran's oil. Speaking to Shana, Hussein Kazempour Ardebily said: This anger is expressed either by slandering the ...

Reuters - Saudi Arabia and Russia wont add significantly more oil to the market because of a lack of capacity, a top Iranian official said on Monday, predicting prices will probably rise further. On Sunday, ministers and officials from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries plus Russia and other allies ruled out an immediate oil-output ...

CNBC - Trump's tweets are inflating oil prices, Iran official says 13 Hours Ago | 02:47 President Donald Trump's tweeting habits are lifting oil prices, and the U.S. leader should stop posting on social media to alleviate the spike in prices, according to one Iranian official. "The Trump administration is pushing politics ...

SHANA - Irans OPEC Governor Hussein Kazempour Ardebily said no production increase was discussed during Sundays meeting of the Joint OPEC-Non-OPEC Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) in Algiers. Ardebily who represented Iran in the meeting told Shana that the compliance of OPEC and non-OPEC signatories of the OPEC output cut ...

Shana -- Iran's OPEC Governor Hossein Kazempour Ardebili said not much is left of OPEC's international credibility as an organization thanks to the measures taken by such members as Saudi Arabia and the UAE against other founding members like Iran. In an exclusive interview with Shana, the official said Russia and Saudi Arabia could ...

Reuters - The U.S. will find it difficult to cut Irans oil exports completely as the oil market is already tight and rival producers cannot make up the shortfall, a top Iranian official said on Friday. Washington is seeking to cut Iranian oil exports to zero by November as it reimposes sanctions, and is encouraging other producers such as Saudi ...

Reuters - Iran said on Tuesday U.S. President Donald Trump was mistaken to expect Saudi Arabia and other oil producers to compensate for supply losses caused by U.S. sanctions on Iran, after OPEC production rose only modestly in July. The comments, from Irans OPEC governor, came a day after a Reuters survey showed OPEC production rose by 70,000 ...

Press TV - Iran says US President Donald Trumps anticipation that certain oil producers can fill the market gap created as a result of cutting off Iranian supplies is based on a miscalculation and that he had fallen into a trap that the same producers had created. Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, Irans representative to the Organization of the Petroleum ...

FNA - Iran's Governor at the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries Hossein Kazzempour Ardebili dismissed the recent remarks by the Saudi energy minister that the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) overseeing the OPEC/non-OPEC supply agreement will no longer track individual countries' compliance with quotas. "The remarks made ...

Bloomberg- The war of words over oil prices continues between U.S. President Donald Trump and Iran, and the latest salvo from Iran is for Trump to stop tweeting. Your tweets have driven the prices up by at least $10 per barrel, Irans OPEC governor Hossein Kazempour Ardebili said in a message to Trump,carriedby Iranian Oil Ministrys Shana news service....

Press TV- A senior Iranian oil official has played down differences with Russia over a Saudi-led push to raise crude oil production which has prompted Tehran to warn against breaching OPECs current output limits. Non-OPEC Russia and OPEC members reportedly agreed last month to raise output by around 1 million barrels per day (bpd) from July. Saudi ...

Sputnik - US President Donald Trumps request for Saudi Arabia to step up its oil output to 2 million barrels per day to offset the rising oil prices may be seen as a call for the kingdom to withdraw from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its agreements, Irans OPEC governor Hossein Kazempour Ardebili said Saturday. Putting ...