Iran’s gasoline production averaged 107 million liters a day in the three calendar months ending in late December, up from 97.5 million liters a day in the previous two quarters, according to statistics from Iran’s National Petroleum Products Distribution Company. Press TV.
According to the report, the increase in gasoline production was made possible thanks to projects implemented at refineries in the two main cities of Isfahan and Arak, and the country’s largest gas refinery in the southern port of Bandar Abbas. It is said that it became.
Gasoline production at the Shahzand refinery in Arak and the Persian Gulf Star refinery in Bandar Abbas each increased by nearly 3.3 million liters per day, figures showed.
NIOPDC data also showed that light oil production, which includes diesel fuel supplied to Iran’s road truck fleet, also increased by 11 million liters per day in the December quarter.
The figures come as Iran struggles to meet rising demand for fuel, a problem exacerbated in recent years by high price subsidies that encourage smuggling.
Government statistics say smuggling of petrol and diesel from Iran is reaching 20 million to 30 million liters per day, with reports suggesting the majority of supplies end up in Pakistan and Persian Gulf states. .
MNA