The Announcement is as follows:

Pre-Qualification Public Announcement

For Iran Oil and Gas upstream projects tender rounds

National Iranian oil company (NIOC) intends to hold tender rounds for some of Iran's oil and Gas E&P projects. It hereby invites interested, qualified and reputable E&P or integrated oil companies for pre-qualification. The projects that will subsequently be tendered will be awarded under Iranian laws, rules and regulations.

Pre-qualification documents and related information such as procedures, criteria and evaluation mechanisms, will be available at www.nioc.ir as of Oct. 17th 2016. Applicants shall provide a hard copy as well as electronic files of all required documents and information to the following address up to Nov. 19th 2016.

Address: Room 501, 6th NIOC Hq., No. 671, Hafez St. (before Hafez Bridge, Tehran, Iran

Email Address: ipc@nioc.ir

The final line of pre-qualified applicants will be published on Dec. 7th 2016 at www.nioc.ir