NIOC and the State - Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
2013-5-7 · Within this new legal framework NIOC began to exercise a far greater degree of control over the country’s oil fields. ii) NIOC under the Islamic Republic Changes to oil sector governance in Iran since the fall of the Shah in 1979 reveal complexity and contestation under the façade of NIOC’s seemingly innocuous first initial. Before 1979, NIOC