TEHRAN, May 15 (Shana) The managing director of the World LPG Association (WLPGA) says liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) can address many of the world's energy challenges given its cleanness, abundance and cheapness and Iran is to become the Middle East's biggest supplier of the item in the post-sanctions setting. Speaking to Shana on the sidelines ...

TEHRAN Oct 20 (Shana)--The first LPG consignment was exported from NIOPDCs branch in Abadan city, south of the country. Ali Hekmat director of NIOPDCs branch in Abadan said continuation of LPG exports will depend on foreign customers demand for the product. NIOPDCs branch in Abadan was established in 1908 with the goal of providing better fuel ...

TEHRAN Oct 17 (Shana)--Iran has exported its first cargo of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to neighboring Pakistan. The 126-ton cargo was exported by several tankers at the order of National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company (NIOPDC)s office in the oil-rich city of Abadan in southwestern Iran. Irans LPG exports to Pakistan are within the framework ...

TEHRAN July 12 (Shana)--Iran has added 12 liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers in order to export more products, an aide to Petroleum Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said. Mohammad Souri said Iran could not export LPG and petrochemical products sufficiently in the past years due to shortage of LPG carriers. Now, with the purchase of 12 vessels,...

TEHRAN June 30 (Shana)--National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) hopes to earn one billion dollars a year from selling liquefied petroleum gas, an NIGC official said. Pirouz Monjazi, financial director of NIGC, said LPG sale is under way without any specific problems. He said LPG is mainly used by subsidiaries of Iran Gas Commercial Company. Monjazi,...

Iran is loading eight LPG cargoes totaling 317,000 mt in May for export to Asia, the biggest monthly volume since resuming shipments in May 2013 following an eight-month halt on concerns over an EU ban on shipping insurance, shipping and trade sources said Friday. The latest May liftings indicate Iran is almost returning to export levels seen before ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 12 (MNA) Iran has purchased via private sector 12 new and second-hand tanker ships to carry LPG as a new tactic to save its gas markets. Last year, Irans LPG production capacity soared from modest 5,000 tons to 6500 tons with entering of new oil and gas refineries of Shazand, Fajr, Jam, and Lavan, making Iran as major exporter of gas,...

By Reuters (Reuters) - EU sanctions on Iran'snatural gashave unintentionally also brought its exports of liquefied petroleum gas to a near halt, industry sources say, starving Tehran of yet more dollar revenue and threatening to push European winter fuel bills yet higher. LPG, which comprises propane and butane, comes mainly from oil rather thannatural ...