Petroleum Museums Experts Examine IOTC Old Documents

Iran’s Oil Terminals Company (IOTC), with more than fifty-year experience in oil export activities, has many old and valuable administrative and financial documents.

The Petroleum Museums and Documents Center website reported that the center had dispatched an expertise delegation to Kharg Island, where the company’s headquarters is situated, to hold talks with the company’s managers on preserving and taking care of the documents as well as taking a look at them with the aim of assessing their importance historically.     

Visiting Kharg Island

Petroleum Museums delegation, during its visit, examined the majority of these mostly English language documents including bills of lading, maps, delivery, storage and exports books, oil tankers monthly and annually reports including each oil tanker file from loading orders to leaving the terminal, IOTC personnel’s files, hand-written reports of imposed war period (Iran-Iraq war from 1980 to 1988) and so on.     

During the visit, it was further decided that Kharg Island officials refrain from throwing away the existing documents including those documents that have been allowed to be cleared until Petroleum Museums experts to assess their value and transfer historically valuable documents to Tehran.

Kharg Island’s oil terminal construction was started in 1958 and its pipeline network and its L and T shape jetties were built three years later in 1961.

Hilda was the first oil tanker docked the terminal to take oil. Kharg Island is the largest oil terminal in the Middle East with more than fifty years experience in crude oil exports activities.