19 October 2014 - 10:35
  • News ID: 227030
NIOPDC Eyes Ending Gasoline Imports

TEHRAN Oct 19 (Shana)--The National Iranian Oil Production and Distribution Company (NIOPDC) plans to reduce gasoline imports in several steps and put an end to imports of the product by raising the share of CNG consumption.

NIOPDC’s deputy Shahrokh Khosravani told Shana the company intends to achieve its planned targets through expanding CNG stations across the country as well as implementation of gasoline vapor programs.   
Vapor gasoline programs will prevent wasting part of gasoline and along with boosting CNG consumption will help NIOPDC to reduce gasoline imports, he said.
Elsewhere in his remarks he said while it was predicted the country needs to import 10 million liters of gasoline per day and NIOPDC was planning for imports of 7 million liters, the average daily gasoline imports have confined to 5 million liters per day so far this year, he said.  
According to Khosravani, the level of gasoline imports depend on three key factors including production by oil refineries, overall consumption and the amount of storage of the product.
He pointed out that total daily gasoline consumption of the country stands at 70 million liters per day.
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