No more gasoline imports in next year on agenda
News ID: 4194046 - Mon 8 January
2018 - 11:39
TEHRAN, Jan. 08 (MNA) – Deputy
Minister of Oil Alireza Sadeghabadi said no budget has yet been set for
importing gasoline into the country for the next Iranian calendar year, so that
gasoline imports will be ceased in this period.
Sadeghabadi made the remarks on
Sunday night reiterating that, “gasoline imports will be stopped as of the
beginning of the next Iranian calendar year.”
The Ministry of Oil has planned to
cut gasoline import into the country, he said, adding, “for this purpose, any
budget has not been considered for importing gasoline and called on all
refineries of the country to maintain production capacity of gasoline as much
as 80 million/liter.”
Daily production of one to two
million liters of gasoline will come on stream in Lavan Refinery before the
termination of the current Iranian calendar year in 1396 (to end March 20,
2018), so that the daily production capacity of gasoline will be stabilized in
the country, the deputy oil minister observed.
He put the production capacity of
gas condensates in Persian Gulf Star Refinery, based in Bandar Abbas, by the
yearend at 360,000 barrels of feed and 36 million liters of Euro-5 gasoline.
In conclusion the deputy minister of
oil added, “to solve debt problem of National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), we
have requested National Development Fund of Iran (NDFI) to pay 260 million euro
in order to pay debt of the company indebted to contractors in the 2nd and 3rd
phases of Persian Gulf Star Refinery. However, the government has agreed with
the request of the Ministry of Oil and we hope that this amount of fund will be
injected into the ministry as soon as possible.”
MA/4193770
author: D-Ezatiyan - Date: 1/8/2018