User:Harald Jan Dahle

Harald Jan Teodor Dahle (December 1949) Harald Dahle spent six continuous years, 1998-2003, creating dialogue and common ground on the highest level with the Islamic Republic of Iran as part of the world’s largest 2D seismic project. Persian Carpet 2K, from North of the Persian Gulf to the Oman Sea. He documented the entire project and was a liaison between the seismic progress in the Gulf and the management in Tehran, Oslo and Beijing. I worked with Iranian, Chines, British, Canadian, and Norwegian professional people.

Operational bases were on-and-off in Tehran, traveling via Abadan to the MJF and BGP bases in Hendyjan, the Chinese trailer camp at the Gulf, further on to Bushehr, the Kish Island, Dubai and Sharjah. I monitored the progress of the project from the six seismic vessels, Bin Hai 504, Bin Hai 517, Hai Shi 1, Geo Mariner, Odin Explorer and Pejwak. The seismic shootings was performed in collaboration with the National Iranian Oil Company, NIOC, the China National Petroleum Company, CNPC and the Bureau of Geophysical Prospecting, BGP, also in China.

Persian Carpet 2000 Seismic Project form north of the Persian Gulf to the Oman Sea 1998-2003 Dahle spent six consecutive years, from 1998-2003 in the Persian Gulf creating dialog and common ground on the highest level with the Islamic Republic of Iran and Norway on behalf of the three-national consortium mapping the entire seabed of the Gulf on the Iranian side. He has since worked extensively on the Iran subject for another fourteen years.

There was top performances of all the seismic vessels, trawling the Iranian waters in a 2Km by 2Km dense grid, North to South and east to West. Dahle visited several times the Iranian island of Kish some forty minutes flying time from Dubai and made a filmed interview with the people at the French oil giant Total's supply base. Between February and April 2002, he attended two seminaries at the University of Kish. The project was a huge success with respect to the quality of the seismic data, which, after test processing on board the Chinese mother ship Bin Hai 504, would be further finalized in the CRAY number cruncher at the Imperial College, Royal School of Mines in London were clients would come and view the data as maps on computer screens. The seismic data were then sold to oil companies. They in turn, would need them if they were to drill on the Iranian side of the Persian Gulf after Iran had released new search "blocks". Harald Dahle was project manager with these responsibilities: • Responsible for all documentations of the entire project from day one January 1998 till June 2003. • Reporting back to the management about activities, forward plans and seismic results from Tehran and Dubai, our two headquarters. • Preparing information for the investors • Work closely with the National Iranian Oil Company, the President Mehdi Mirmoezi and the Director General NIOC Exploration Department Mohammad Mohaddes. • Create dialogue and common ground with the Iranians on a ministerial level • Build a digital archive of the entire project from A to Z • Solve potential crew conflict onboard any seismic vessel • Inform the right media with the correct information • Be attentive and focus on forward progress in all areas • Take part in meetings regarding Norway-Iran relations, in Tehran and Oslo • Take part in seminars and meetings in Iran which related to the ongoing project