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Official: Iran Exporting 1.5mln litters of Gasoil to Iraq on Daily Basis
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Alireza Zeiqami announced on Tuesday that the country is exporting large supplies of gasoil and gasoline to four regional countries, including Iraq.
"At present 1.5mln litters of gasoil is exported to Iraq every day," Zeiqami said, adding that Afghanistan has also demanded imports of 2mln litters of gasoil which is being supplied to the country gradually.
"Armenia has also announced its readiness to import a daily volume of 1mln litters of gasoil and 1mln litters of gasoline (from Iran)," he stated.
Iran, the world's fifth-biggest crude oil exporter has long depended on imported gasoline for 30 to 40 percent of its consumption, but has now become a net exporter.
In April, the National Iranian Oil Engineering and Construction Company (NIOEC) announced that Iran was set to increase its gasoline output by more than four times, from the current 42 million liters (11.09 million gallons) per day to 186 million liters (49.1 million gallons) per day in a five-year period.
Also earlier in April, Iran's former Oil Minister Massoud Mir-Kazzemi announced that the country planned to boost its daily gasoline output by 22 million liters this year.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony to inaugurate the first phase of the development plan of Lavan oil refinery in the Persian Gulf, the former minister also said that Iran plans to improve the quality of its gasoline production in order to get Euro-4 and Euro-5 standards in the near future.
Mir-Kazzemi had announced in February that the country is prepared to export gasoline to the neighboring countries due to the excessive production of Iranian oil refineries.
Iran is by now ready to export gasoline to the neighboring countries, Mir-Kazzemi said, and reiterated that Iran is now self-sufficient in gasoline production.
Iran increased its gasoline production after the United States and the European Union started approving their own unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program, mostly targeting the country's energy and banking sectors, including a US boycott of gasoline supplies to Iran.
After the UN Security Council ratified a sanctions resolution against Iran on June 9, 2010, the US Senate passed a legislation to expand sanctions on foreign companies that invest in Iran's energy sector and those foreign companies that sell refined petroleum to Iran or help develop its refining capacity.
The bill, which later received the approval of the House of Representatives, said companies that continue to sell gasoline and other refined oil products to Iran would be banned from receiving Energy Department contracts to deliver crude to the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The bill was then signed into law by US President Barack Obama.
But Iran's self-sufficiency in gasoline production made Washington's plots fall flat. Iran boosted gasoline production so much that in September 2010, the country exported its first gasoline consignment to the foreign markets.
"At present 1.5mln litters of gasoil is exported to Iraq every day," Zeiqami said, adding that Afghanistan has also demanded imports of 2mln litters of gasoil which is being supplied to the country gradually.
"Armenia has also announced its readiness to import a daily volume of 1mln litters of gasoil and 1mln litters of gasoline (from Iran)," he stated.
Iran, the world's fifth-biggest crude oil exporter has long depended on imported gasoline for 30 to 40 percent of its consumption, but has now become a net exporter.
In April, the National Iranian Oil Engineering and Construction Company (NIOEC) announced that Iran was set to increase its gasoline output by more than four times, from the current 42 million liters (11.09 million gallons) per day to 186 million liters (49.1 million gallons) per day in a five-year period.
Also earlier in April, Iran's former Oil Minister Massoud Mir-Kazzemi announced that the country planned to boost its daily gasoline output by 22 million liters this year.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony to inaugurate the first phase of the development plan of Lavan oil refinery in the Persian Gulf, the former minister also said that Iran plans to improve the quality of its gasoline production in order to get Euro-4 and Euro-5 standards in the near future.
Mir-Kazzemi had announced in February that the country is prepared to export gasoline to the neighboring countries due to the excessive production of Iranian oil refineries.
Iran is by now ready to export gasoline to the neighboring countries, Mir-Kazzemi said, and reiterated that Iran is now self-sufficient in gasoline production.
Iran increased its gasoline production after the United States and the European Union started approving their own unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program, mostly targeting the country's energy and banking sectors, including a US boycott of gasoline supplies to Iran.
After the UN Security Council ratified a sanctions resolution against Iran on June 9, 2010, the US Senate passed a legislation to expand sanctions on foreign companies that invest in Iran's energy sector and those foreign companies that sell refined petroleum to Iran or help develop its refining capacity.
The bill, which later received the approval of the House of Representatives, said companies that continue to sell gasoline and other refined oil products to Iran would be banned from receiving Energy Department contracts to deliver crude to the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The bill was then signed into law by US President Barack Obama.
But Iran's self-sufficiency in gasoline production made Washington's plots fall flat. Iran boosted gasoline production so much that in September 2010, the country exported its first gasoline consignment to the foreign markets.
