Baku, Azerbaijan, Apr. 13
By Umid Niayesh - Trend:
Gasoline consumption in the Iranian capital city of Tehran hit 5.06 billion liters in the last fiscal year, which ended on March 20, Morteza Abedini, director of Tehran Department of Oil products Distribution Company said.
The figure indicates an increase by 2 percent in comparison with the preceding year, according to Abedini, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported April 13.
Iran's total gasoline consumption in the last fiscal year stood at 25.35 billion liters, which is 1.7 percent more compared to the preceding year.
Over 8.263 billion liters of oil products, including gasoline, gas oil, fuel oil, and kerosene, were consumed in total in Tehran during the last fiscal year, Abedini said. Some 2.961 billion liters of gas oil and 34.83 million liters of kerosene were consumed in Tehran during the period, showing 17 percent and 52 percent decline respectively.
Moreover, 211.57 million liters of fuel oil were consumed in the capital city in the mentioned period of time, 49 percent less year on year.
Iran's total liquid fuel output (including gasoline, diesel oil, fuel oil and kerosene) is a little more than 265 million liters per day. The country's gasoline output is currently around 62 million liters, so it needs to import the rest. The Islamic Republic only imports Euro-4 gasoline currently.
The country's total production capacity will reach 96 million liters per day in the current Iranian fiscal year (to end March 20, 2016), once the Persian Gulf Star refinery's gasoline production unit comes on stream.
Iran used to import 40 percent of its needed gasoline in 2009. But international sanctions forced it to produce more gasoline domestically by adding lead or some poisonous chemical catalysts such as MTBE to the product. MTBE is a highly poisonous substance that causes cancer. It is banned worldwide for use in gasoline production.
Edited by CN
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