Iran drops Gazprom Neft from oil field development

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Moscow-The National Iranian Oil Company has dropped Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russia's natural gas giant Gazprom, from a project to develop Iran's Azar oil field and is in talks with a domestic consortium as a possible replacement, NIOC said August 28. Hamid Karimi, director of the Azar development, said negotiations last year were unsuccessful and Gazprom Neft had been eliminated from the project, according to a statement.