Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug. 6
By Fatih Karimov - Trend: Iran has exported the first consignment of gas oil to Afghanistan after 8 years.
A year after ex-President Mohammad Khatami took the office in 1997 Iran not only became self-sufficient in producing gas oil but also started to export the surplus amount. The situation remained the same during his eight years in office. But once Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became Iran's president, the country once again started to import gas oil.
Iran's deputy oil minister Abbas Kazemi said on August 6 that gas oil export was resumed.
"The supply of natural gas to power plants is sufficient and the need to supply gas oil to the power plants has been removed. So, the surplus of gas oil which is produced in oil refineries will be exported", Iran's Mehr news agency quoted Kazemi.
Iran's power plants consumed 5.2 billion liters of fuel (gas oil and mazut) in the first 135 days of the current Iranian fiscal year, which began on March 21.
Fuel consumption decreased by 3 billion liters compared to the same period in the previous year, Iran's Shana news agency reported on August 5.
The decline in fuel consumption has been due to a rise in gas supply to the power plants.
Some 161 million cubic meters of gas has been supplied to the power plants per day on average during the mentioned period of time, showing a 35 percent rise year on year.
In the previous fiscal year, Iran delivered around 36 billion cubic meters of gas to its power plants and consumed around 28 billion liters of mazut and gas oil to generate electricity.
But the officials announced that they will increase gas delivery to power plants up to 42 billion cubic meters in the current year.
Mohsen Mazloum Farsibaf, director for planning affairs of the oil ministry, told SHANA News Agency on July 22 that the country has not imported any gas oil since the beginning of the current Iranian fiscal year (which started on March 21).
The managing director of the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company Abbas Kazemi told Shana in May that Iran has exported above 10 billion liters of mazut and gas oil since March 21 as well.
The statistics of National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company, million liters per day
|
Gasoline output |
Gasoline consumption |
Gasoline consumption in power plants |
|
|
1998 |
64.7 |
63.8 |
Not available |
|
1999 |
69.5 |
63.1 |
Not available |
|
2000 |
69.9 |
66.7 |
Not available |
|
2001 |
70.8 |
69.1 |
Not available |
|
2002 |
71.8 |
70.8 |
Not available |
|
2003 |
73.2 |
72 |
3.4 |
|
2004 |
77 |
75 |
5.3 |
|
2005 |
79.1 |
79.4 |
6.6 |
|
2006 |
80.4 |
86.2 |
12.3 |
|
2007 |
81.6 |
79.7 |
12.2 |
|
2008 |
84.9 |
92.5 |
11.7 |
|
2009 |
88.7 |
92.8 |
13.5 |
|
2010 |
85.2 |
95.2 |
16 |
|
2011 |
94.7 |
96.8 |
25.5 |
|
2012 |
93.6 |
97.2 |
21 |
|
2013 |
94 |
104 |
31 |