Iran to increase gasoline production capacity
Seven oil refining projects are underway in Iran, with the goal
of boosting gasoline production capacity to 110 million liters per
day, IRNA news agency quoted deputy oil minister Alireza Zeighami
as saying, Trend news agency reported.
The projects will be inaugurated maximum by the end of the first
half of the next Iranian calendar year (September 21, 2013), he
added.
The projects include Arak, Lavan, Tabriz, Esfahan, Bandar Abbas,
Tehran, and Persian Gulf Star refineries.
Iranian refiners have been obliged to supply gasoline meeting
Euro-4 standards since the beginning of the next Iranian calendar
year (March 21, 2013), Mehr news agency quoted Iranian Standards
Organization's Deputy Director Bahador Kazemi as saying on January
12.
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.
Iran exported over 132,000 tons of gasoline, worth around $134
million, last year.
According to Customs Administration data, the gasoline exports rose
by 127 percent in value and 108.5 percent in volume, respectively,
compared to the year before.
Armenia, Afghanistan, the UAE, Iraq and Oman were the destinations
for Iranian gasoline.
In December 2012, IRNA quoted Ali-Mohammad Sha'eri, the Iranian
environment protection department's deputy director, as saying that
some 50 million liters 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 amount of fuel will be produced by Shazand, Tondgouyan, Abadan,
and Lavan refineries, he added.
In October 2012, ISNA quoted Zeighami as saying that Iran is
currently producing 25 million liters of premium gasoline per day,
meeting Euro-4 and Euro-5 standards.
The country's gasoline output is projected to hit 70 million liters
per day by the end of the next Iranian calendar year, he added.
He also said that diesel oil output will reach 95 million liters
per day by the end of the current Iranian year, of which 25 million
liters meet Euro-4 and Euro-5 standards.