With a refining capacity of 2 million 237 thousand barrels per day and a 16% share in OPEC, Iran ranks second among the countries of this organization, and it also accounts for 2.1% of the world's refining capacity.
The CEO of the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company said: "Despite a 50% increase in demand and cyber threats and military attacks, fuel supplies continued uninterrupted."
The CEO of the National Iranian Petroleum Refining and Distribution Company announced the smart measures and round-the-clock efforts of 160,000 operational forces in the fuel supply and distribution chain to maintain the stability of the country's fuel supply network during the imposed war with the Zionist regime, and emphasized: Despite a 50 percent increase in demand and cyber threats and military attacks, fuel supply continued without interruption.
The CEO of Isfahan Oil Refining Company announced the implementation of the company's Furnace Hull Upgrade (RHU) project in two phases, saying: "Operation of the first phase of this project will help eliminate the gas imbalance, and the second phase will eliminate the gasoline and oil and gas imbalance."
The governor of Tehran announced that the 100-year record for gasoline consumption in Tehran has been broken.
This project has been launched in cooperation with the National Petroleum Products Distribution Company in provinces such as Isfahan, Zanjan and Qazvin, and the number of participating stations is expected to increase in the coming days.
Between June 12 and 17 of this year, more than 801 million liters of gasoline were distributed and consumed in the country, which means that the average daily gasoline consumption during this period exceeded 133 million liters.
A judicial official announced the seizure of two vessels carrying smuggled fuel in the waters of the Persian Gulf.
The advisor to the CEO of the National Iranian Petroleum Refining and Distribution Company reported that $6 to $8 billion of the country's resources are wasted annually due to fuel smuggling, saying: "We must have a national perspective in fuel allocation, while the relevant agencies have a sectoral perspective."
The Deputy CEO of the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company announced the increase in the country's refining capacity to 2.4 million barrels per day and stated: "The Abadan refinery has had the largest share in this capacity increase."
