Tehran, Iran, Sept. 28
By Milad Fashtami - Trend:
Some 61.785 million liters of gasoline were consumed in Tehran province in the first four days of the Iranian calendar month of Mehr (September 23 - September 26), which coincides with the beginning of Iran's school year.
The Managing Director of Tehran Province Oil Products Distribution Company Morteza Abedini said that the figure shows 2 percent compared to the same period previous year, Iran's IRNA News Agency reported on September 28.
"Some 38.58 million liters of gasoline conforming to Euro-4 standard were consumed in the capital city in the mentioned four days," he explained.
"Averagely 13 million liters of gasoline will be consumed in Tehran province," Abedini said, adding that Tehran city's consumption accounts for 10.5 million liters of the mentioned figure.
Abedini said on September 3 that some 4.956 billion liters of gasoline were consumed in Tehran province in the 12-month period which ended on March 20.
"Some 3.837 billion liters of the mentioned amount was consumed in the capital city,"he said, Iran's SHANA News Agency reported.
"Some 1.611 billion liters of gasoline has been consumed in Tehran in the first five months of the current year, which started on March 21," Abedini explained.
"The figure is 46.5 million liters more than previous year" he noted.
Iran's average gasoline consumption in the current year has reached 70 million liters per day, some 1.5 percent more than the same period previous year.
Over the past several years, Iran's gasoline import dependency has decreased significantly as a result of increased domestic refining capacity and subsidy cuts. Iran plans to increase gasoline production capacity at the Isfahan and Bandar Abbas refineries by the end of 2014.
Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said that once the Persian Gulf Star refinery comes on stream, Iran will be able to produce gasoline conforming to Euro-5 standard, Iran's IRNA News Agency reported on August 30.
Iran seeks to become able to daily produce 12 million liters of gasoline conforming to Euro-5 standard in the first half of the next Iranian calendar year (to start March 21, 2015).
He went on to note that the country currently only imports Euro-4 gasoline.