Tehran, YJC. Deputy Director of National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIOPDC) Shahrokh Khsravani has said Iran will stop gasoline imports by next year.
Khosravani speaking to Mehr News Agency said that with the
operation of new refinery in Isfahan as well as the first phase of Persian Gulf Star refinery,
the country is likely to stop imports of gasoline completely.
"Iran has been importing an average of 5 million liters of
gasoline daily; right now, the design and installment of machinery in Isfahan
refinery is over,” he added.
"Sanctions prevented the provision of catalysts which are
needed in the gasoline production project; now, an indigenous catalyst
production plan is been carried out by Iranian expertise,” Khosravani told Mehr
News, adding that "the refinery will produce four million liters of gasoline
with Euro 4 quality standard each day.”
"The standard of seventy per cent of construction of Persian
Gulf Star condensate gas refinery has been achieved; according to schedule, the
first phase will be set for operation by next year (beginning March 21, 2015),”
he said.
"Bandar Abbas refinery is also in its final construction phase;
with all of these refineries entering operation, Iran will practically abandon importing
gasoline by next September,” Khosravani asserted.