Official Stresses Iran's Self-Sufficiency in Production of Refinery Parts

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran is able to produce and supply all the parts needed for its gas refineries, a senior Iranian gas official said on Monday.
Speaking to reporters in Iran's Southern port city of Assalouyeh, Director for Coordination and Supervision of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Mehdi Jamshidi Dana said that the company has implemented several projects to maintain self-sufficiency in the production of the parts needed for its gas refineries.

He said that establishment of a data bank for spare parts and chemical materials, a data bank of the local resources of parts for gas refineries, the technical specifications of the needed spare parts and setting up of self-sufficiency committees are among the projects implemented for reaching and maintaining the self sufficiency.

Jamshidi Dana further announced that 160 projects are currently underway in the country's gas refineries in a bid to increase production capacity and boost stability in gas production.

In January, Managing-Director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) NIGC Javad Oji announced that the country has boosted its gas refining capacity to 505 million cubic meters per day.

"We have now reached 505 mcm of gas refining capacity in the country," Oji said at the time.

The official said that the boost resulted after the country increased refining capacities at Bidboland and Fajr Jam refineries.

Iran has the world's second-largest reserves of natural gas (15% of the world's total).

Iran possesses roughly 10 percent of the world's total proven petroleum reserves as well.