Talk:Petroleum industry in Iran

Corrections to the U.S. government's report
69.116.236.229 (talk) 19:43, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Lead section: "crude oil...was the country’s primary source of foreign currency and employment", foreign currency - yes, but not employment (less than 1%, see here)
 * 2) Lead section: "In 2004, for example, the sector accounted for 25 percent of total government revenues and 85 percent of the total annual value of both exports and foreign currency earnings." In 2010, percentage of crude oil sales in government revenues was 60% see here
 * 3) Oil refining and consumption section: "Iran had invested between US$100 million and US$150 million to expand gasoline production to 8 million liters per day by 2007." 42 million liters per day by 2007, not 8.
 * 4) Petrochemicals section: "In the early 2000s, an ambitious state petrochemicals project called for expansion of annual output in that industry from 9 million tons in 2001 to 27 million tons in 2013." Target is 50 million tpy by 2010 and 100 million tpy by 2015. Please see here.

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Peer review (or Good article reassessment)
Should we subject this article to peer review? Lbertolotti (talk) 15:26, 12 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes, the article would benefit from WP:Peer review or else WP:Good article reassessment. Looks like it was last reviewed in 2010 and hasn't received substantive updates since early 2012. So, it's entirely missing the important issues surrounding the 2012–2015 international embargo and Iran's 2016 intention to recover its previous level of oil production despite a worldwide glut. For now, I've added an Update tag and a new sentence to the intro section. Great if any of you have enough facts/refs/time at your disposal, to bring the article up to date again. —Patrug (talk) 08:07, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, the article would benefit from WP:Peer review or else WP:Good article reassessment. Looks like it was last reviewed in 2010 and hasn't received substantive updates since early 2012. So, it's entirely missing the important issues surrounding the 2012–2015 international embargo and Iran's 2016 intention to recover its previous level of oil production despite a worldwide glut. For now, I've added an Update tag and a new sentence to the intro section. Great if any of you have enough facts/refs/time at your disposal, to bring the article up to date again. —Patrug (talk) 08:07, 14 April 2016 (UTC)


 * This article is (basically) up-to-date. The only main thing is the drop in oil production that you have reported and properly referenced. We don't need to report all fluctuations in productions or news details {see SHANA news agency in EL for that}. Also note that this article has many more detailed articles such as "FDI in Iran" or "NIOC" where you can find more specific details and updates (eg. new oil contracts, oil fields, etc..). Oil production itself is updated thru the IEA graph itself that is also given in this artcile. Cheers! 86.106.23.223 (talk) 05:37, 7 June 2016 (UTC)


 * No, let's not minimize the problem. Almost all of this article's facts & references are 5 to 12 years out-of-date (2004–2011), and many are significantly misleading. The recent years of international sanctions and collapsing oil prices and plunging currency value caused substantial factual changes that are hardly just "fluctuations" or "details". This article has no IEA graph, updated or otherwise. The previous major contributors to the article are no longer active editors on English Wikipedia. If you have access to current references for updating the article's facts, paragraph by paragraph, this would be extremely helpful. If it continues with no improvement, already two months after tagging, I expect to submit the article soon for WP:Good article reassessment. It's not a "bad" article, but the facts & references that qualified it as an official "Good Article" in 2010 are no longer sufficient to satisfy that standard in 2016. —Patrug (talk) 12:27, 9 June 2016 (UTC)


 * The points you mention are well taken but these are mostly ECONOMIC side-effects related to the Petroleum industry of Iran. Major source was the Library of Congress among others and I don't see this source as "misleading" in any way. Many linked articles deal with those economic issues more in details. This article focuses on the industrial aspect, mostly (for info, you can use www.shana.ir for major updates as needed.) Again, I don't see anything major lacking in this article. 47.17.27.232 (talk) 01:33, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

New reassesment requested by another IP
As a preamble, I don't care either way but think it is helpful to note the following:

1. This article is mainly sourced to the U.S. Library of Congress as noted previously (which is reliable source (minus small correction as per first section)

2. Someone has removed all PressTV stats but all these SAME stats can be found in many Western sources. Whether this person has personal issues with Iran or PTV or gets rewarded in some way is hard to tell based on edits alone. Systematically removing a source just "because it is PTV" accross WP is missleading IMO. In the context of economic data and this article, it is not political propaganda and therefore should not be *systematically* deleted IMO. You are doing a dis-servive to WP and the community who cannot see where the information came from. If you are afraid of PTV appearing as a source *by itself* is not a good sign of impartial editing and a sign of "lazy editing". For info, I don't work for the IR gov.

3. I don't see changes that would require a re-assesment IMO except people DELETING *reliable source (*in this CONTEXT of this article ONLY) which makes some statements harder to verify. This UNLESS you can prove otherwise specifically/ on a case-by-case basis.