An Iranian delegation is in Beijing this week to push for more oil sales and discuss Chinese oil and gas investments in Iran, just days after Tehran and world powers reached a framework nuclear deal, Iranian oil officials told Reuters. China is Iran’s largest trade partner and oil client, having bought roughly half of Iran’s total crude exports since 2012, when sanctions against Iran were tightened. Amir-Hossein Zamaninia, Iran’s deputy oil minister for commerce and international affairs said he and his colleagues would discuss China’s oil and gas projects in Iran, while officials from state-run National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) will meet with China’s biggest crude buyers. The NIOC and other officials are expected to meet with regular customers Unipec, the trading arm of top Asian refiner Sinopec Corp, and state trader Zhuhai Zhenrong Corp, which started taking Iranian crude in the mid-1990’s when Tehran sought […]