Iran to become major gasoline exporter by next year
Iran’s Oil Minister says with developing refineries, Iran will be a major fuel exporter by the end of the next year (April, 2014), and will eliminate the dependency of exporting crude oil completely.In a meeting with board members of Retirement Association Group and directors, managers and district representatives of oil industry Pension Funds, Rostam Qasemi said that in terms of production capacity of fuel Iran’s position is satisfactory, and “with refineries development projects over, Iran will be a major exporter of fuel in the region.”
He added that oil and gas field development was in good conditions, and South Pars development phases were active and “we will have greater production capacity from this huge gas field.”
Oil Minister also emphasized that rise in South Pars gas production provided good conditions for export of gas to neighboring countries. He told the audience that today harsh sanction against the country are applied one after another and said: “currently, our oil industry is proud of its performers and its successes despite problems caused by heavy sanction we are still standing and meeting our financial requirement and credit obligations.”
Qasemi asserted that the Ministry had worked hard to preserve the oil exports in its current level and said: “foreigners thought that with the condition they have imposed, Iran would fall in few months, but thanks to our hard working people in oil industry, not only did we overcome the problems, but we are also running other oil projects in normal conditions.”
Source:
mehrnews.com
