The original tender documents for the two delineation wells were issued by Total South Pars in March 1998 and OSC bid through its Iranian joint venture, QOSC and was awarded the contract in July 1998 for a 10-12 month duration. A key stipulation of the contract was that it must be operated from within Iran itself thus OSC/QOSC established its presence on Kish Island to support the Total South Pars project and imported the necessary, certified rolling stock and handling equipment from Jebel Ali to undertake the project. The Jebel Ali facilities continued to be utilised as strategic support for the Kish Island facilities and the appraisal wells were completed reasonably on schedule with no major HS&E issues.

Late in 1999, OSC/QOSC/IOSC was invited to tender for the development project for Total South Pars II/III and a comprehensive bid was furnished once again featuring Kish Island supported by Jebel Ali. The scope of services was similar to Total Sirri and for the appraisal wells operation. Whilst we were unsuccessful with our bid, Total South Pars selected a Kish based company, we have continued to provide quality services from Jebel Ali to support the drilling campaign.

In the context of the various South Pars projects OSC/IOSC is committed to the use of Assaluyeh as a base support location and is further willing to invest in the necessary infrastructure there as it is firmly believed that Assaluyeh is exactly the correct location to provide onshore support for the offshore drilling programmes.