Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct.14/ Trend F.Karimov/
Iran has received numerous calls from its neighbours to help establish refineries in those countries, the Tasnim News Agency quoted Managing Director of National Iranian Oil Engineering and Construction Company, Farhad Ahmadi, as saying.
The Iranian oil industry has attained such a capability that it is able to build refineries both inside and outside the country, he added.
Currently, the country has reached 90 per cent self-sufficiency in engineering, 70 per cent autonomy in goods procurement and 100 per cent independence in implementation, Ahmadi said.
In May, the Mehr News Agency quoted chairman of the union of Iranian exporters of oil derivatives, Hassan Khosrojerdi, as saying that Iran has agreed to help six African countries establish oil refineries in their countries.
The refineries are projected to have a 20,000 barrel per day capacity, he added.
Memorandums of understanding have been signed with the African countries and preliminary measures for finding appropriate places to establish the refineries are underway, he noted.
In September, ISNA quoted the research centre's director Mansour Bazmi as saying that the Iranian Oil Ministry's research centre has indigenized the basic design technology required for building oil and gas condensates refineries.
The work started 10 years ago he said, adding that the indigenized technology meets all international standards.
The first production unit based on Iranian technology has been established at the Kharg petrochemical complex with a capacity to produce 500 tons of propane and butane and 4000 barrels of naphtha per day, he noted.
In August, IRNA quoted Ahmad Pour-Heidar, managing director of the PSEEZ Customs Office, as saying that Iran exported 3.253 million tons of gas condensates worth over $2.311 billion, from the Pars Special Energy Economic Zone in Assaluyeh in the southern province of Bushehr over the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year which began on March 21.
The country exported about 7.263 million tons of light and heavy polyethylene, gas condensate, propane gases, butane, benzene and Paraxylene during the five month period.
According to Pour-Heidar, China, Japan, the UAE, India, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Turkey, Romania, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Afghanistan were the main markets for the exported goods.
Iran exported some $11 billion worth of condensates in the past Iranian calendar year compared to $12 billion in its preceding year.
Exports of condensates amounted to $2.646 billion in the first four months of the past year, down 15 per cent year on year.
In April, the managing director of Iranian Oil Terminals Company (IOTC) said the country will roughly triple its gas condensate exports in less than two years, Press TV reported.
Seyyed Pirouz Mousavi said that in less than two years, Iran will increase its export of gas condensate from the current level of 450,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 1.2 million pbd.