Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct.9 / Trend /
Every day Iranian oil refineries process about 1.7 million barrels of oil, from which 220 million liters of oil products is received, ISNA news agency quotes Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Alireza Zeighami as reporting.
Some 45 million liters of the total amount of oil products falls to gasoline and 95 million liters to diesel fuel. Although a number of cars this year increased by one million compared to the last year, gasoline consumption in Iran decreased from 66.5 million liters of gasoline in the last year to 63.6 million liters in this year as a result of implementation of the project on rationing.
Daily volume of subsidized gasoline consumption in Iran last year was 3.1 million liters per day, whereas in this year - 12.1 million liters.