Current Studies:

1-A survey of developments in the regional and international energy markets (with an emphasis on oil and gas)

2-Determining Iran’s optimal gas export markets, pricing regime and optimal gas consumption in the national economy

3-A survey of the impacts of decisions envisioned in the environmental conventions on the international market of hydrocarbon fuels and demand for Iran’s oil and gas

4-Potentials and mechanisms for the attraction of foreign investments into the oil and gas industries

5-OPEC’s performance and future status, and the interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran

6-An assessment of the economic gains and losses of the transfer of the oil and gas of Central Asia and the Caucasus via Iran, in comparison with the other possible routes 

7-A survey of marketing and sales policies, sales procedures, and the traditional markets of Iran’s crude oil sales 

8-Constant calculation of the purchasing power of oil revenues (changing the current prices to fixed rates) 

9-A survey of the futures markets and the mechanism of their effects on the global markets and crude oil prices 

10-Amendment of the pricing regime of oil products inside the country 

11-A survey of the structural strategies of the energy sector in the Second Five-Year Economic Development Plan and suggestions for the Third Plan 

12-Ways of promoting the Islamic Republic of Iran’s status in the international energy markets 

13-Ways of reducing energy consumption inside the country (with an emphasis on raising public awareness) 

14-Prospects of oil pricing and crude oil transactions based on the dollar, with an emphasis on the European market and the European single currency 

15-A comparative study of organizational structures, decisions, structural developments of the administrative foundations and the firms operating in the energy sectors of certain countries and of Iran

16- Energy conservation in rail, sea and air transportation

17- Potential means of lowering fuel consumption and oil, gas & petrochemical wastes reduction (Second phase)

18- Prevention of wasteful burning of associated gases (Second phase)