Iran will be self sufficient in high-quality gasoline production by March 2016, according to the country’s deputy petroleum minister, Abbas Kazemi.
“Based on plans, with the implementation of the first phase of the Persian Gulf Star Refinery, the quality of gasoline production in the country’s refineries will increase and we will be able to become exporter of standard and high-quality gasoline,” said Kazemi.
He added that the products of the Persian Gulf Star Refinery will be consumed domestically while Abadan and Bandar Abbas refineries’ products including gasoline will be exported.
“We’re already self-sufficient in gas oil, fuel oil, liquefied gas and kerosene production,” said Kazemi.
The deputy petroleum minister, who doubles up as managing-director of National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC), said the oil-rich city of Ahvaz in southwestern Iran will start distributing euro-4 gasoline in September.
He said the Iran will produce euro-5 grade gasoline from a second refinery which the Petroleum Ministry plans to build in Abadan.
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