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Titolo: e c'e' chi boicotta l'Iran

http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFLDE65R1O220100628?sp=true
June 28 (Reuters) - Spain's largest oil company Repsol (
REP.MC
: Quote)
has pulled out of a contract it won with Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L:
Quote) to develop part of the South Pars gas field in Iran, a
spokesman said on Monday [ID:nLDE65R0JE].
A growing number of oil companies, trading houses and other
international companies have stopped doing business with Iran this
year amid a U.S. drive to isolate Tehran and international efforts to
impose tougher sanctions.
Here are some of the companies:
* Repsol (
REP.MC
: Quote) has pulled out of a contract it won with
Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote) to develop part of the South Pars
gas field in Iran.]
-- Separately, French oil group Total (
TOTF.PA
: Quote) said it had
suspended sales of refined products to Iran. It said in April would
cease gasoline sales to Iran if the United States passed legislation
to penalize fuel suppliers to Iran. Congress passed legislation last
week. [ID:nnN24148251]
* Italy's oil and gas major Eni (ENI.MI: Quote) is handing the
operation of Darkhovin oilfield in Iran to local partners to avoid
U.S. sanctions, Eni told U.S. authorities on April 29. [ID:nLDE63S0XT]
* Russian oil major LUKOIL (
LKOH.MM
: Quote) will cease gasoline sales
to Iran, industry sources said on April 7, following a similar
decision by Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote) in March. LUKOIL had
supplied some 250,000 to 500,000 barrels of gasoline to Iran every
other month, traders said. [ID:nLDE636061]
* Malaysia's Petronas has stopped supplying gasoline to Iran, a
company spokesman said on April 15. [ID:nSGE63E09V]
* Luxury carmaker Daimler (DAIGn.DE: Quote) announced plans on April
14 to sell its 30 percent stake in an Iranian engine maker and freeze
the planned export to Iran of cars and trucks. The announcement
followed similar action by German insurers Munich Re (MUVGn.DE: Quote)
and Allianz (
ALVG.DE
: Quote). [ID:nLDE63C0TG]
* India's largest private refiner, Reliance Industries (
RELI.BO
:
Quote), will not renew a contract to import crude oil from Iran for
financial year 2010, two sources familiar with the supply deal said on
April 1. [ID:nSGE630033]
* Oil trading firms Trafigura and Vitol are stopping gasoline sales to
Iran, industry sources said on March 8. [ID:LDE627129]
* Ingersoll-Rand Plc (IR.N: Quote), a maker of air compressors and
cooling systems for buildings and transport, said it will no longer
allow subsidiaries to sell parts or products to Tehran. [IDnN09245639]
* Oilfield services company Smith International (SII.N: Quote) said on
March 1 it was actively pursuing the termination of all its activities
in Iran. [ID:nN01116545]
* Caterpillar (CAT.N: Quote), the world's largest maker of
construction and mining equipment, said on March 1 it had tightened
its policy on not doing business with Iran to prevent foreign
subsidiaries from selling equipment to independent dealers who resell
it to Tehran. [ID:nN01245727]
* German engineering conglomerate Siemens (SIEGn.DE: Quote) said in
January it would not accept further orders from Iran. [ID:nLDE60P1LJ]
* Glencore GLEN.UL ceased supplying gasoline to Iran in November 2009,
according to traders. [ID:nSGE60A0CF]
* Chemical manufacturer Huntsman Corp (HUN.N: Quote) announced in
January that its indirect foreign subsidiaries would stop selling
products to third parties in Iran.
* Accounting giants KPMG KPMG.UL, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Ernst &
Young have declared themselves free of any business ties to Iran.
STILL DEALING WITH IRAN
* The website of New York-based lobby group United Against Nuclear
Iran lists scores of companies it says still do, or have done,
business with Iran (here). The list includes companies that have
severed links with Iran.
* The U.S. Government Accountability Office reported in April that 41
foreign companies were involved in Iran's oil, natural gas and
petrochemical sectors from 2005 to 2009. In a report in May, the GAO
said seven of those companies received U.S. government contracts worth
nearly $880 million.
These were: Daelim Industrial Company of South Korea; Eni; PTT
Exploration and Production of Thailand; Hyundai Heavy Industries of
South Korea; and GS Engineering and Construction of South Korea.
* Russia's Gazprom (
GAZP.MM
: Quote) confirmed in March it was in talks
with Iran on developing the Azar oil field.
* Pakistan's foreign ministry said on June 10 that a $7.6 billion
project for export of Iranian natural gas to Pakistan would be
unaffected by the imposition of fresh U.N. sanctions [ID:nSGE6590G7]
(Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit, and Ross
Colvin in Washington;)

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