Iran exports over 1 million tons of oil products
Iran exported more than one million tons of oil products in the
past Iranian calendar year, which ended on March 20, Mehr news
agency reported.
Over one million tons of diesel fuel, kerosene, furnace oil, and
naphtha were exported to different countries, mainly to the Persian
Gulf states, and Southeast Asia.
Meanwhile, the country swapped 140,000 tons of liquefied gas via
the Caspian Sea states.
On January 14, Pana news agency reported that Iran has created
infrastructures for swapping up to 6 million liters of oil products
at northern regions of the country.
In recent years taking improper policies by the Iranian
administration has reduced the volume of swaps to a great extent,
so that some 6,270 tons of liquefied gas has been swapped between
Central Asia and Iran since the beginning of the current yea,
compared with 21,188 tons in the past year.
National Iranian Gas Company Managing Director Javad Owji said in
October 2012 that imports of natural gas from Turkmenistan into
Iran have decreased by 52 percent over the first half of the
current Iranian year (March 20-September 21, 2012) compared to the
same period of the last year.
In August 2012, deputy oil minister Alireza Zeighami announced that
Iran has launched a liquefied gas swap route in the Caspian
Sea.
Mehr quoted Zeighami as saying that swapping other oil products,
such as furnace oil, is currently underway with the Caspian Sea
littoral states.
Between 15,000-30,000 barrels of crude oil is swapped per day
despite sanctions against the Islamic Republic's oil industry, the
official noted.
The EU banned importing Iranian crude oil and covering insurance
for Iranian oil carrying tankers for European companies. EU
insurance companies cover about 95 percent of tankers in the
world.