Iran has no plans to sell crude oil to Russia - official
Iranian Oil Ministry spokesman Alireza Nikzad-Rahbar said that Iran has not been in talks with Russia for selling crude oil to its northern neighbor, ISNA news agency reported.
Referring to some news which has been published by some media outlets, Nikzad-Rahbar said that there is basically no infrastructure for transferring crude oil from southern Iran to the Caspian Sea.
On June 18, Mehr news agency reported that Russia has recently expressed interest in importing crude oil from Iran.
Tehran and Moscow has been holding talks in this regard. Russian officials have proposed launching a pipeline to supply oil from Iran's southern oilfields to the Caspian Sea and then carried by tankers to Russian oil terminals, the report said.
In this line, the National Iranian Oil Company has started dredging operations around Neka oil terminal to provide giant tankers with the possibility to berth at the terminal, the report said.
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