Baku, Azerbaijan, July 29
By Fatih Karimov - Trend: Some 439.4 million liters of gasoline were consumed in Iran in the week to July 25.
The country's average gasoline consumption was around 63 million liters per day in the mentioned week, Iran's SHANA News Agency reported on July 28.
July 27 with 76.1 million liters, and July 19 with 50.2 million liters respectively recorded the highest and lowest rate of gasoline consumption in the week.
Iran's average gasoline consumption stood at 69.4 million liters per day in the third calendar month of the current Iranian year (May 21 - June 21).
The country's average gasoline consumption in the first and second calendar months of the year was also 68.3 and 69.9 million liters per day, respectively, Iran's IRNA News agency reported on June 29.
April 1 with 101 million liters, and April 25 with 53.5 million liters respectively recorded the highest and lowest rate of gasoline consumption in spring.
Shahrokh Khosravani, deputy director of National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC), said that Iran will be able to export 20 million liters of gasoline per day as of next year.
"Currently the country produces 60 million liters of gasoline per day," he said, Iran's Mehr News Agency reported on June 9.
"Iran's gasoline consumption currently is around 70 million liters per day, so we need to import 10 million liters of gasoline each day," he explained.
"But once the Persian Gulf Star refinery's gasoline production unit comes on stream, the country's total production capacity will reach 96 million liters per day," Khosravani said.
"Then Iran will be able to export the surplus gasoline which is around 20 million liters per day," he noted.
He went on to note that the first phase of the Persian Gulf Star refinery (with the capacity to produce 12 million liters of gasoline per day) will come on stream by the end of the next Iranian fiscal year (March 20, 2016).
Edited by CN