National Oilwell Varco, Inc (and subsidiaries Dreco Energy Services, Ltd. & NOV Elmar)

OFAC determined that from on or about 2002 to on or about 2009, NOV engaged in certain conduct in apparent violation of the ITSR. Specifically: (1) between October 2002 and April 2005, National Oilwell Varco, Inc. approved at least four Dreco commission payments to a U.K.- based entity that related to the sale and exportation of goods, directly or indirectly, from Dreco to Iran, in apparent violation of the ITSR (these four commission payments have a combined value of $2,630,091); (2) between September 2006 and January 2008, National Oilwell Varco, Inc.

MKS Shanghai

From 2008 through his arrest in 2012, Qiang (Johnson) Hu, a sales manager at MKS Shanghai, conspired with co-workers and others to illegally supply thousands of export-controlled pressure transducers, worth more than $6.5 million, to unauthorized end-users in China, Iran and elsewhere using export licenses fraudulently obtained from the Department of Commerce.