Euro-4 gasoline to be sold in several Iranian cities
Iran will start selling gasoline conforming to the Euro-4 standard in eight cities from February, Trend news agency reported referring to Fars agency.
The gasoline will be produced at the Shazand oil refinery.
The move is a part of Iran's efforts to reduce air pollution. Motor vehicles account for 70 per cent of air pollution in the Iranian capital city.
Tehran says all carmakers would be obliged to manufacture cars meeting Euro-4 and Euro-5 standards.
The managing director of the Lavan Oil Refinery Company (LORC) Mohammad-Ali Dadvar said last week that Iran will double its gasoline production capacity at its Persian Gulf refineries by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20). The produced gasoline meets Euro-5 standard, he said.
Iranian Standards Organisation's deputy director Bahador Kazemi also said earlier this month that Iranian refiners are being made to supply gasoline meeting Euro-4 standards since the beginning of the next Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2013).
The produced gasoline currently meets Euro-2 standards, he said, adding that newly established refineries are able to produce gasoline which meets both Euro-4 and Euro-5 standards.
In December 2012, IRNA news agency quoted Ali-Mohammad Sha'eri, the Iranian environment protection department's deputy director as saying that some 50 million litres of gasoline and diesel meeting Euro-4 and Euro-5 standards will be produced in Iran by the end of the current Iranian calendar year.
The required amount of fuel will be produced by Shazand, Tondgouyan, Abadan and Lavan refineries, he added.
In October 2012, ISNA news agency quoted the National Iranian Oil Production and Distribution Company's managing director Alireza Zeighami as saying that Iran is currently producing 25 million litres of premium gasoline per day meeting Euro-4 and Euro-5 standards.
The country's gasoline output is projected to hit 70 million litres per day by the end of the next Iranian calendar year, he added.