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Iran3Une plateforme pétrolière roumaine a été saisie mardi dans le Golfe Persique par les autorités iraniennes et les 26 personnes à son bord séquestrées, a rapporté l’agence publique roumaine Rompres.

« La plateforme Orizont a été attaquée à coups de canon par un bâtiment de guerre iranien, puis séquestrée dans les eaux du Golfe Persique », a déclaré un porte-parole de la société Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP), propriétaire de la plateforme.

Selon le porte-parole, cet incident surviendrait à la suite d’un litige commercial entre la société roumaine et le bénéficiaire iranien, la compagnie Pétroiran qui n

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  1. attention la plate-forme est bien Roumaine mais a été saisie dans le Golfe Persique .

  2. Romania’s Foreign Ministry called on Iranian authorities to immediately free Romanian crew members being held by the troops who took over the rig. The rig operator said seven Indian crew members had been released but 20 Romanians were still detained.
    « We are dealing with a commercial dispute that is being treated in an extreme way by the Iranian authorities, » Medar told Realitatea TV. He added that Iranian authorities had not confirmed the incident. Iranian officials and state media offered no immediate statements.
    The company that operates the rig was in Iranian courts earlier this year over a dispute involving another one of its oil rigs, the Romanian financial weekly Saptamana Financiara has reported.
    The Romanian Foreign Ministry said it had summoned Iran’s ambassador to provide information and that Romania’s charge d’affaires in Iran, Mircea Has, was instructed to lodge an official protest and request a meeting with Iranian diplomats there. It said it planned to send a Romanian embassy team to the area where the rig was attacked.
    The Iranians fired into the air and then fired at the Orizont rig, said Radu Petrescu, a spokesman for rig operator GSP. A half-hour later, troops from the ship boarded and occupied the rig and the company lost contact with the 26 crew members, company officials said.
    GSP President Gabriel Comanescu said, « They fired on the rig. They destroyed one of the cranes. Four armed soldiers climbed aboard the rig. »
    Has said the Romanian crew members were not injured and were being detained on the rig’s helicopter pad.
    A Romanian lawmaker who leads the left-wing opposition accused Iran of taking a hostile action against Romania. He called on President Basescu to lead an emergency meeting of the country’s supreme defense council.
    « The oil rig Orizont is Romanian territory, » said Mircea Geoana, who heads the Social Democratic Party. Geoana served as foreign minister from 2000-2004.
    GSP, also known as the Oil Services Group, is a private Romanian company established in 2004 that operates six offshore rigs that it bought from Romania’s largest oil company, Petrom.
    Two of its rigs are operating near the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf as part of a deal signed between Petrom, GSP and Dubai-based Oriental Oil Co.
    The Orizont rig was built in 1987 and weighs 13,000 tons. It has been moored near Kish island in the Persian Gulf since October 2005, Romanian political consul in Tehran Yujin Chira told The Associated Press.
    Kish, in the southern end of the Persian Gulf, houses the offices of about 100 Iranian and foreign oil companies

  3. Iran’s Navy Attacks and Boards Romanian Rig in Gulf (Update3)
    By Andy Critchlow and Marc Wolfensberger
    Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) — Iran attacked and seized control of a Romanian oil rig working in its Persian Gulf waters this morning one week after the Iranian government accused the European drilling company of « hijacking » another rig.
    An Iranian naval vessel fired on the rig owned by Romania’s Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP) in the Salman field and took control of its radio room at about 7:00 a.m. local time, Lulu Tabanesku, Grup’s representative in the United Arab Emirates said in a phone interview from Dubai today.
    « The Iranians fired at the rig’s crane with machine guns, » Tabanesku said. « They are in control now and we can’t contact the rig. » The Romanian company has 26 workers on the platform, he said.
    Iran, which holds the world’s second-largest oil and gas reserves, is due to respond today to a European Union-led offer of incentives aimed at persuading it to halt uranium enrichment activities that are crucial to its nuclear program.
    Neither the press office of Iran’s oil ministry nor the one of Iran’s revolutionary guards could be reached for comment when called. Today is a national holiday in Iran.
    Crude oil for September was at $72.56 a barrel, up 11 cents, on the New York Mercantile Exchange at 12:06 p.m. in London. The contract expires today. The more-active October contract was up 7 cents at $73.37 a barrel.
    Straits of Hormuz
    Iran urged the United Arab Emirates last week to help it return another oil rig owned and operated by the Romanian company in the same waters close to the Straits of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the world’s daily oil supply moves on tankers.
    Grup said it recovered its rig last week because of a contractual dispute with its Iranian client, Oriental Oil Kish.
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suspended Oriental Oil’s activities in 2005 on alleged corruption activity and ties to Halliburton Co. of the U.S. The U.A.E.-registered drilling company had signed a preliminary contract with Halliburton after winning an estimated $310 million contract to develop phases 9 and 10 of Iran’s offshore South Pars gas reservoir.
    Mircea Geoana, the head of the Social Democratic Party, the main opposition party in Romania, called on the government to « undertake all diplomatic measures necessary » to persuade the Iranians to release the rig.
    He also called on President Traian Basescu in a news conference broadcast on Realitatea television to invite all political party heads to the presidential palace to « discuss what Romania’s reaction will be to this provocation. ».
    To contact the reporter on this story: Andy Critchlow in Dubai at at acritchlow1@bloomberg.net
    Last Updated: August 22, 2006 07:59 EDT

  4. Ou l’on retrouve Pars South (cf. QATAR)
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    Grup said it recovered its rig last week because of a contractual dispute with its Iranian client, Oriental Oil Kish.
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suspended Oriental Oil’s activities in 2005 on alleged corruption activity and ties to Halliburton Co. of the U.S. The U.A.E.-registered drilling company had signed a preliminary contract with Halliburton after winning an estimated $310 million contract to develop phases 9 and 10 of Iran’s offshore South Pars gas reservoir.

  5. Selon une déclaration faite à la Rompres par Radu Petrescu, officier de presse de la compagnie Groupe Services Pétroliers de Roumanie (GSP), propriétaire de la plateforme

  8. Roumanie: deux diplomates sur la plateforme pétrolière saisie par l’Iran
    AFP 23.08.06 | 13h18
    eux diplomates roumains sont en route vers l’île iranienne de Kish, d’où ils comptent gagner la plateforme pétrolière saisie mardi par les autorités de Téhéran, à la suite d’un différend commercial, a rapporté mercredi l’agence Mediafax. Le chargé d’affaires roumain, Mircea Has, devrait pour sa part être reçu dans le courant de la journée au ministère iranien des Affaires étrangères, où il compte protester contre l' »action disproportionnée » de Téhéran, selon la même source. La compagnie roumaine Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP) avait annoncé mardi que l’une de ses plateformes pétrolières, Orizont, présente dans le Golfe, avait été saisie par les autorités iraniennes et les 26 personnes à son bord séquestrées. Selon le porte-parole de GSP, Radu Petrescu, la plateforme avait été « attaquée à coups de canon par un bâtiment de guerre iranien, puis séquestrée dans les eaux » du Golfe. Les Iraniens « auraient pu résoudre le problème de mille autres manières, sans avoir recours à des actions militaires, d’autant plus qu’il s’agissait d’un bâtiment civil », a commenté M. Has. Selon lui toutefois, les Roumains à bord de la plateforme « peuvent maintenant circuler librement, tandis que les militaires iraniens ont quitté la plateforme ». Seuls trois policiers et deux représentants de la compagnie iranienne impliquée dans ce différend sont encore présents à bord, a-t-il précisé.

  9. Roumanie : la question de la plateforme Orizont sera tranchée en justice
    Bucarest, 23 août/Rompres/ – Les problèmes et les divergences entre les deux compagnies impliquées dans l

  10. Après avoir été le premier et seul état au monde a avoir envahi une ambassade (Etats Unis sous la présidence de Carter)et pris ses occupants en otages, les fous de dieu iraniens ont a nouveau inové en envoyant l’armée prendre d’assaut un « bâtiment » civil et capturer ses occupants au plus profond mépris de toutes règles les plus élémentaires de droit.
    Hitler aussi a commencé par quelques coups de forces impunis et lâchement tolérés…
    On connait la suite…

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