National Iranian South Oil Company

National Iranian South Oil Company

Company type	State-owned enterprise
Industry	Oil and gas
Founded	1971
Headquarters	Ahvaz, Iran
Key people	Bijan Allipour (CEO)[1]
Products	Oil, natural gas
Owner	National Iranian Oil Company
Number of employees	28,000 (2012)
Website	NISOC.ir

The National Iranian South Oil Company (NISOC; Persian: شرکت ملی مناطق نفت‌خیز جنوب ایران) is a government-owned corporation under the direction of the Ministry of Petroleum of Iran, and operates as a subsidiary of National Iranian Oil Company. It was established in Masjed Soleyman, 1971. Currently NISOC is Iran's biggest oil producer, and the company is active in a land area more than 400,000 km² with headquarters in Ahvaz, Iran and other nine subsidiaries. NISOC is producing about 83% of all crude oil and 16% of natural gas produced in Iran^[2] and ranks as the Iran's largest oil company.^[3]

References

1. "Key Executives For National Iranian South Oil Company". Bloomberg.
2. "NISOC boosting oil production". IRNA. Archived from the original on 2015-11-21. Retrieved 2017-04-19.
3. About NISOC^{[permanent dead link]}