Tehran, April 27, IRNA Extraction of oil from the oil layer of the giant offshore South Pars gas field is to start next calendar year (starting March 2016). Ali-Reza Zeighami, South Pars oil layers project manager, said the wells being drilled in the oil layer are to become operational in the second half of next calendar year. In the first ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Managing-Director of Abadan Oil Refinery Moslem Rahimi said his refinery is ready to export helicopter and jet fuel to foreign countries. Abadan refinery meets domestic needs to fuel for helicopters and training planes, and has made the country needless of importing this expensive product, Rahimi said, reiterating that Iran is ready ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Domestic oil refineries production of euro-4 gasoline has reached 21 million liters per day, Managing-Director of the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC) Alireza Zeighami said. "Daily production of euro-4 gasoline by Imam Khomeini and Abadan oil refineries stands at 12 and 3 million liters respectively ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's gasoline production capacity will reach 71 million liters per day in the near future, Head of the National Iranian Oil Refining And Distribution Company (NIORDC) Alireza Zeighami said. Addressing the inaugural ceremony of an upgrading plan at Lavan oil refinery, Zeighami said gasoline production at domestic oil refineries ...

An Iranian deputy oil minister says Tehran is taking legal action against European and American companies for their failure to honor refining contracts with Iran. Iran will file a complaint against European and American companies for their non-compliance with [the terms of] their contracts with Iran for the implementation of refining projects, Alireza ...

Irans Deputy Oil Minister Alireza Zeighami says the country has started distributing Euro-4 premium gasoline, which meets European fuel quality standards, in a number of major cities. Zeighami said in a televised interview on Thursday that the distribution of the product has started in cities such as Tehran, Karaj, Ahwaz and Arak. According to ...

ISLAMABAD: Iran has launched a border market to sell diesel fuel to buyers in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The move has been taken to counter smuggling of fuel at border areas, the Mehr News Agency reported. As the US and European Union tighten sanctions on Iran, a lucrative cross-border industry of smuggling fuel and goods has emerged, bolstered by a ...

Irans deputy oil minister says the Islamic Republic has signed a new contract with Iraq to supply three to five million liters of premium diesel to its western neighbor on a daily basis. Under the agreement, Iran will export 3-5 million liters of quality diesel to this neighboring country (Iraq) per day, Alireza Zeighami told Mehr news agency on Wednesday....

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Iran Deputy Oil Minister Alireza Zeighami says the country will finish projects to develop production capacity of four refineries by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2014). Zeighami, who is also the managing director of National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC), said on Thursday that the implementation ...

[caption id="attachment_24769" align="alignright" width="300"] File photo shows Shazand refinery near the central Iranian city of Arak.[/caption] An Iranian deputy oil minister says the country has become self-sufficient in the production of liquefied natural gas (LNG). Alireza Zeighami said on Sunday that Iran has stopped importing 800 tons a day ...

(Reuters) -AirlinesinIranhave seven days to repay more than $200 million in debts they owe to the oil ministry for fuel or face being grounded, a senior official was quoted as saying on Tuesday. Severalairlineshave amassed large debts due to the pressure of successive fuel price increases and the loss of access to government-subsidised foreign currency ...