Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov.23 / Trend F.Milad/
Iran will soon deliver a 100,000-liter jet fuel consignment to foreign buyers at the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, Mehr news agency quoted the managing director of National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company, Jalil Salari, as saying.
This is Iran's first domestically produced jet fuel, the report said.
Previously, Salari said that the neighboring countries, as well as the East Asian countries have declared their readiness to buy Iranian jet fuel.
Lavan refinery in Iran will start producing jet fuel next Iranian calendar year (to start on March 21, 2012), the refinery's managing director announced on November 8.
The plan aims to export jet fuel, as a strategic oil product, from the Persian Gulf to the international markets, Mohammad-Ali Dadvar told Mehr news agency.
He also said that the refinery will boost gasoline production capacity by three times to 3.8 million liters per day in spring 2012.