Delivery, stockpiling and export of over 90 percent of Iranian crude oil totaling 16.5 million barrels per day which is expandable to 20 million barrels per day is the most important activity of the National Iranian Oil Terminals Company. The Kharg export terminal, as the most important oil terminal of the country is located on the southern Persian Gulf Island of Kharg, 30 miles northwest of Bushehr port. In order to implement its programs, the National Iranian Oil Terminals Company has signed contracts worth 3,000 billion rials for the next five years. At present, the company is implementing a project to increase storage capacity of Kharg export terminal for oil derivatives to 5.5 million barrels per day. The number of storage tanks at Kharg oil terminal stands at 22 with varying storage capacity ranging from 140,000 barrels to one million barrels. At present some of these storage tanks are being repaired or renovated. According to engineer Hojjat Heidari, managing director of the National Iranian Oil Terminals Company, with construction of three new storage tanks with a capacity of one million barrels each, four tanks with a capacity of 500,000 barrels each and three tanks with the capacity of 270,000 barrels each, the total storage capacity of Kharg oil terminal will sharply increase. The project for construction of the said tanks has a made a physical progress of 26 percent. These huge giant tanks with varying storage capacities are being set up on the highest point of Kharg Island in order to make operational maneuvers possible, recover fluid energy and its conversion into potential energy. They will be used for stockpiling of crude oil under unfavorable climatic conditions and in the event of the absence of any oil tankers at the harbor. It seems that with a boom in shipbuilding industry and construction of large oil tankers inside the country, oil export industry has undergone a transformation and to this end, oil exporting countries have felt the need to built larger jetties at which huge oil tankers with a capacity of upto 500,000 tons can berth. In order to attain this goal, noticeable efforts have been made including the construction of the western jetty (Azarpad). The Azarpad jetty is one of the well equipped jetties of the National Iranian Oil Terminals Company on the Kharg Island whose construction has been placed on the agenda of the company with an aim of making it possible for oil tankers with a capacity of upto 250,000 tons to berth at the island. At present, the Azarpad jetty with three berthing points is one of the most active oil jetties of the world. The jetty is linked with the shore through two computerized display monitors and is equipped with such equipment as a sophisticated navigational system, automatic and semi-automatic fire extinguishing systems and a rotating heating fuel system. Based on latest reports, making use of existing facilities at the Azarpad jetty at the Kharg oil terminal, has made it possible to load two types of crude oil at jetty number 15 simultaneously. The eastern jetty (T-shaped) is one of the export jetties of Kharg oil export terminal which was constructed in 1959. The first consignment of Iranian crude oil weighing 125,610 barrels was delivered to Heldia ship in the January of the same year. The jetty is located 1,100 meters from the Iranian shores and the depth of water around the jetty ranges between 1 and 23 meters. The jetty is 1,830 meters long and 40 meters wide and has ten berthing points. At the end of the war imposed by Iraq on Iran and simultaneous with renovation of oil storage tanks, reconstruction of the eastern jetty started and thanks to the efforts of Iranian oil experts and workers the jetty was rebuilt and became ready to handle simultaneous loading operation for six oil tankers with capacities of 100,000 to 270,000 tons, in a short period of time. In order to measure the volume of crude exported by Iran, a series of sophisticated and state of the art metering systems were set up at the eastern jetty (T-shaped) and on the shore of the Azarpad jetty which precisely compute and measure the amount of the exported crude. The precision of the metering devices are regularly tested by independent inspectors every year to ensure that the volume of oil being exported by the country is measured with high precision according to internationally-recognized standards. At present, renovation of the two Azarpad and T-shaped jetties is on the agenda of the National Iranian Oil Terminals Company and according to engineer Heidari, t he project for reconstruction and renovation of these two jetties are among the important plans being implemented by the company. A sum of 36 million dollars has been invested in the project whose executive operation is to start this year. The oil produced at southern oil-rich regions, is first transferred from pumping stations of Ahvaz, Omidiyeh ad Gureh to Genaveh and then carried to the Kharg Island through three 30-inch, 42-inch and 52-inch pipelines. These pipelines which carry heavy and light crude to the region extend to the site of storage tanks and after arriving at pressure reduction stations and being separated (into heavy and light) enter the storage tanks. Then they are transported to the eastern and western jetties (the latter being known as Azarpad) through two separate pipelines. Given the sensitive role of marine services sector in the trend of crude oil exports, most of activities in this sector used to be carried out by foreign experts in the past but with the training of domestic skilled manpower such services are now being rendered by Iranian experts. With a glance at the most important activities in the marine services and navigational sector at Kharg export terminal, one can sum up such activities as guiding oil tankers and ships to the island and vice-versa, guiding oil tankers to berth at the eastern and western jetties, separation of crude after they are loaded and carrying out security inspections of ships that have berthed at the jetties to load their crude consignments. Making sure of the readiness of operational tug boats and guiding boats, having them participate in berthing operations, separating ships and keeping the personnel ready for operation in emergency cases to confront oil slicks are among other duties of the marine service sector of the National Iranian Oil Terminals Company on Kharg island. Behshahr oil terminal (Neka) on the southeastern side of the Caspian Sea is among the important terminals of the company that has been set up in an areas of 62 hectares and equipped with modern equipment in order to receive oil from Caspian littoral states under a oil swap agreement. It has one of the most modern facilities in the Middle East. The terminal has three jetties located at a dock with a depth of 5.5 meters and a radius of 200 meters. Each jetty has two well-equipped 12-inch jib booms with off-loading capacity of 800 cubic meters per hour. Oil tankers with a capacity of 5000 tons can berth at the jetties. The water used for various installations including steam boilers come from two semi-deep wells drilled at the compound of the terminal. The water is pumped out of the wells and stored in a 1,000 cubic meter tank and then used for various purposes such as cleaning up the metering equipment and pumping stations. In order to observe environmental standards and prevent pollution of sea water and industrial wastewater treatment system has been set up at this terminal. The well-equipped chemical laboratory of the terminal is responsible for checking the quality of imported crude, drinking water consumed by the personnel and the water used by steam boilers. The National Iranian Oil Terminals Company is also charged with exporting gas condensates from South Pars terminal. To this end, Osslaviyeh port city, located 270 kilometers southeast of Bushehr, has been chosen as a venue for construction of gas refineries with an aim of expanding export of gas condensates. Presently, the average production of gas condensates from various development phases of South Pars gas field which have come on stream stands at around 90,000 barrels per day and the figure is expected to rise once other phases of South Pars development plan are completed. The South Pars oil derivatives export terminal located at Osslaviyeh port with three tanks each with a capacity of 330,000 barrels is handling export of gas condensates. The South Pars export terminal formally started its activities in April 2002 when the ship 'Minab 1' berthed at it. The first consigned of gas condensates weighing 36,877 tons was exported from the terminal on board the ship 'ALDIBYANIY YAH'. Among other terminals run by the National Iranian Oil Terminals Company is Mahshahr terminal which handles export of oil derivatives produced at Abadan oil refinery. Three vessels of the company are engaged in guiding oil tankers to berth at the port. Given the wide ranging activities of the National Iranian Oil Derivatives Company for receiving, measuring and exporting crude oil, one can refer to the activities of the company at four ports of Neka, Mahshahr, Osslaviyeh and Kharg including simultaneous delivery of two types of crude to oil tankers at a speed of 200,000 barrels per hour, ability to export crude through ship to ship (STS) method, receiving oil under swap scheme and receiving international certificates such as ISO 14001 (1996), ISO 9001 (2000) and OHSAS 1800 (1999) as the most important measures taken by the company in 2003.