RadioFarda - French and Iranian researchers have teamed up to find out what triggered the mysterious recent flash flood in Gazanak village at the foot of mount Damavand, 120 kilometers (75 miles) northeast of the capital, Tehran. At 5,610 meters (roughly 18,400 feet) above sea level, Damavand is the highest peak in the Middle East and the highest ...

TEHRAN August 29(Shana)National Iranian South Oil Company has drilled more than 100,000 meters of development and workover wells during the first 5 months of the current Iranian calendar year which started on March 21, an NISOC official said. Drilling deputy at NISOC Mohammad Mahdi Zarei said of the spudded wells during the period were 90,000m development ...

TEHRAN Sept 14 (Shana)--National Iranian South Oil Company (NISOC) has started operations for drilling 40 development wells in South Azadegan oil field which Iran shares with Iraq, an NISOC official said. In line with Petroleum Ministrys strategic policy for the development of joint fields,... the drilling of 40 wells in South Azadegan has been commissioned ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iranian seismologists as well as researchers from other Middle Eastern countries have jointly accomplished the first phase of the Earthquake Model of the Middle East (EMME). Deputy Head of the International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IIEES) for Research and technology Department Mehdi Zare, who is at Istanbuls ...