Oilfields Supply Center Ltd.

Bandar Imam Khomeini is situated some 170 kilometers south of Ahwaz and 150 Kilometers north-west of Soroosh/Nowrooz. 110 kilometers east of Abadan International Airport and other airports nearby are Ahwaz and Mahshahr.

From among the commercial ports in Iran, the Bandar Imam Khomeini port handles almost half of non-oil cargo exchanges alone, and thus is considered to be the most significant and biggest commercial terminal in the country.

Followings is a quick review of the port of Bandar Imam Khomeini:

Located at LAT 30º 26.3'N Long 049º 05'E
45 quays (ranging from 5 to 14 meters draft)
222,000m² of warehouses
General cargo storage of 1,100,000m²
Well maintained, inspected and certified mobile equipment
Access to Gulf through 42 nautical mile waterway - average width of 250m, depth 20m
Bunkering facilities
Port railway system (100 kms) - connected to Iran's main rail system & particularly to Ahwaz
Accommodation (40 bedroom, 3-Star Hotel), catering, medical facilities available
Local semi-skilled & unskilled labour available
Four fire stations located in the port complemented by specialised fire fighting craft
Powerful & sophisticated communications Center
24 hours / 365 days per year operations
Low utilisation of facilities
Imports / Re-exports possible duty exempt

IOSC has established a fully equipped logistics base within the port for both offshore and onshore use and also handling customs clearances, waste management services, and container/basket management services. All of the northern offshore fields and some prime onshore developments can be serviced from Bandar Imam Khomeini (e.g. Azedegan, Bangestan, Anaran etc).

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Kish Island

Due to its strategic position and relatively good infrastructure Kish Island has proved to be a very useful location for logistic services in support of drilling in the South Pars field.

The two delineation wells for Total South Pars were drilled primarily with support from the facilities on the island complemented by the broader infrastructure of Jebel Ali.

Total South Pars has been quite happy with the services provided by Kish Island and have stated that they have been very pleased with the logistic services provided by OSC under its contract TSP/OP/CFT 008 Handling Base Services which have been performed from Kish Island itself. Furthermore, Total South Pars is undertaking the well drilling from Kish as Assaluyeh is not yet developed sufficiently.

Pedec (Petropars) are also using Kish Island on a limited basis for support of its project particularly JDC (Sagadrill) which has a small presence on the Island.

Bushehr

Bushehr is very well placed to support the Dorood, Hendijan and possibly Foroozan offshore projects and, in fact, IOSC has been awarded the contract to provide Handling/Lifting/Transportation Services to TotalFinaElf in support of the offshore portion of its Dorood buy-back project. Bushehr can also support the Kharg Island operation where the Dorood onshore drilling will take place.

IOSC has signed a contract with the Ports and Shipping Organisation (PSO) of the Islamic Republic of Iran for office, guesthouse, open and closed storage and harbour facilities within its Bushehr facilities to support the Dorood project. Additionally, IOSC will provide vessel clearance services, customs clearances and waste disposal services from the Bushehr Port.

Bushehr already houses the IOOC operations for NIOC but this area is considered a little congested hence the move to PSO facilities not far away.

Some distances from Bushehr are: -

Kharg Island	-	67 kilometers
Bandar Imam Khomeini	-	258 kilometers
Kish Island	-	458 kilometers
Bandar Abbas	-	725 kilometers

Bushehr is served by an international airport situated only 3 kilometers from the port and the airport has daily flights within Iran to cities such as Tehran, Isfahan and Shiraz and flights to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Due to Bushehr's support of the oil and gas industry which has spanned many years, there does exist a large pool of well-qualified Iranians who could perform exceptional service with suitable training and the right equipment.

IOSC is committed to the process of indigenisation without comprising the level of service and is further committed to a strong Health, Safety and Environmental orientation.

Kharg Island

The Dorood project, awarded to TotalFinaElf and ENI is a $1.0 billion buy-back development contract aimed at increasing output from the field by 90,000 bpd to 220,000 bpd. Further it requires extensive reinjection facilities to more than double the current reserves to1.5 billion barrels.

Drilling at Dorood Field off
Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf.
Courtesy.ENI

Drilling of the appraisal and development wells were completed after many delays by late 2006.

Kharg Island is the key area of drilling (onshore) and there will also be some offshore drilling adjacent to the island. IOSC provides logistics services to the Dorood project on Kharg Island where it has mobile cranes, pipe-handler, forklifts, buses and manpower to support the TotalFinaElf operation. Bushehr takes a less active role in the Dorood project but is used from time to time.

Khorramshahr

IOSC intends to operate a somewhat limited service out of the Khorramshahr port because the port infrastructure itself does not lend itself to Oilfield operations primarly because of the very low draft of the quays. It might, however, have practical uses as a warehousing location for transit materials for Azadegan and Bangestan and it is this context that IOSC intends to establish a presence there.

Clearly Khorramshahr's position to the west of the Karoon river facilities support to these projects situated close to the Iraq border (Anaran, Darquain, Azadegan, Bangestan, Mehr etc).

Ahwaz

The Bangestan project(s) is a $2.0 billion overall contract and the only logistics capabilities currently in existence belong to NIDC. These are clearly inefficient, as they have not been able to satisfy NIDC's own demands with any degree of success. Our intention would be to establish offices; warehouses and workshops in Ahwaz and draw inventory supplies from IOSC's Bandar Imam Khomeini base as and when required.

Other fields that could benefit from the infrastructure in Ahwaz include Cheshmeh Khosh, Darkhovin, Dehluran, Paydar, Paydar West, Agha Jari and Masjed-E-Suleyman and Azedegan.

Jebel Ali (OSC base)

We certainly continue to see the need to use Jebel Ali as a support to Kish Island, Assaluyeh and Bushehr as it complements the activities in Iran itself. As many of the services that can be provided from the Iranian facilities with the appropriate quality levels clearly should be encouraged but there must be back-up support and this is where we see OSC's Jebel Ali capabilities.