Investigating production sharing agreement as a way to attract investment in Iran's oil industry

Production sharing agreements are one of the most important upstream contracts in the international oil and gas industry. This deal has always been a good substitute for the country's international oil contracts by critics of the industry. Now, in order to explain the status and suitability of this contract with the upstream documents of the country and to analyze its principles from the perspective of religious principles, this article will analyze the nature and most important legal aspects of this agreement. So achieve this goal, we first analyze the legal nature of the this agreement and then briefly review the most important legal features of the country's upstream oil and gas cooperative contracts, and finally review the laws to assess the applicability of these contracts to the upstream oil and gas sector.