An Assessment of Oil Legislation Sources Adequacy in National Oil and Gas Industry Equipment Development in Upstream Sector

The country’'s oil industry, despite having over a hundred years of experience in oil production and trade, is still unable to carry out activities in an endogenous manner and to exploit local potentials in all operational and executional sectors. One of the most important sectors of the country’'s oil industry, which continues to be significantly dependent to overseas, is the procurement part of the industry in the upstream sector. Considering the importance of national production of oil and gas equipment in upstream sector, this survey is trying to answer whether the oil legislation law sources support the oil industry in the production of these equipment properly and proportionately? To answer this question, this research has extracted standard measures on the basis of a conceptual framework and through the experts’ viewpoints, and after clarifying the existing legislative sources, has come to evaluate the oil legislation law sources in this regard. The results show that the main oil laws of the country and the laws regarding the requirement of internal share towards the extracted standards are neglected and the statutory laws of the National Iranian Oil Company also provide poor support for the construction of the mentioned equipment.