Iran renews offer to help with Gulf spill

Iranian energy companies stand ready to help respond to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico if asked by U.S. officials, Iranian oil executives said.

Mehran Alinejad, the director of drilling operations at the National Iranian Drilling Co., said Iranian companies had experience controlling vast oil spills in the region. He told the official Islamic Republic News Agency that technical teams in Iran had “major achievements in oil well capping.”