Iran fuel stocks at optimal level despite US sanctions: Official

A senior official from Iran’s Ministry of Oil says the country is currently holding abundant stocks of fuel despite US sanction that have affected the oil industry.

“This year we have no worry and concern at all about production and supply of fuel in the country and stocks are in very ideal conditions,” said Alireza Sadeq Abadi, who serves as managing director of National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC), on Wednesday.

Sadegh Abadi, a deputy oil minister, said Iran’s gasoline production had already exceeded 110,000 liters per day, adding that some 2.2 million barrels of fuel are also supplied to refineries across the country each day.

“This is a great achievement at the time of the economic war,” said the official, making a reference to Iran’s struggle to cope with the impacts of US sanctions on the oil and gas industry.

Iran has seen its official oil exports decline as a result of sanctions although officials insist they would continue to sell oil through unconventional channels.

PressTV-Iran refining capacity up by %40 in 2 years

Iran increases its oil and condensate refining capacity by nearly 40 percent in two years.

However, Iran’s oil and gas production has increased since the sanctions began in November as the government seeks to respond to a growing domestic demand for energy.

The refining industry has largely benefitted from the sanctions as the capacity for turning crude into other products has increased by nearly 40 percent in the past two years.

Sadeq Abadi said last month that the total operating capacity of Iran’s refineries had increased from 1,550,000 to 2,150,000 barrels per day in the two-year period ending in May 2019.

The NIORDC chief said plans were in place to further expand the refining sector and bring the total capacity of the refineries across the country to 2,400,000 bpd at the end of the current Iranian calendar year in March.

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