Exploration Projects management Organization, met the approval of organization affairs and manners of NIOC in 2000 and announced to IOOC.

Exploration Projects Management, based on delivered duties, undertake the planning affairs, progress of exploration plans & projects in Persian gulf and Oman sea. In this way, with carry out geological and exploration projects, planning and supervising of 2D/3D seismic data acquisition, processing and interpretation, as well as, supervising of drilling exploration wells, this management want to be fulfilled the motioned above aims.

Significant projects which carried out by this management are:

Supervising of 3D seismic data acquisition and processing of sirri (civand & dena) Resalat, Reshadat, Aboozar (encounter with production problems), Hengam fields and strait of Hormoz area. And practical participate in interpretation of these projects data and provide reports for these projects. The following chart, shows the place of this management and its sub divisions based on organization chart of IOOC.