The government has been forced to import $6 billion worth of gasoline to meet domestic needs; despite the high cost and widespread smuggling, current quotas remain unchanged.

Navid Hedayatifar, referring to the gas imbalance crisis in winter, said that replacing 20 million worn-out heaters with high-efficiency heaters could reduce household consumption and allocate the released gas to industries.

Natural gas consumption in the residential, commercial, and small industrial sectors reached about 2 billion 726 million cubic meters last week as air temperatures dropped, and the highest consumption was recorded on Wednesday with about 401 million cubic meters.

Fajr Energy Persian Gulf Company (formerly Fajr Petrochemical) was established in the 1970s with the aim of providing utilities to companies in the Special Economic Zone in Bandar Imam Khomeini and became the first centralized utility company in the country. The company plays an important role in transmitting electricity, water, liquid oxygen, and steam to its neighboring petrochemical companies.

The CEO of the National Petroleum Products Distribution Company said: "The record-breaking delivery of diesel to power plants and the filling of the country's power plant sector oil and gas tanks took place in a situation where we did not import diesel this year, and all of this diesel was supplied by the production capacity of domestic refineries."

The CEO of Hengam Petrochemical announced that the company's ammonia unit has reached full capacity for the first time since its launch, and the urea unit will also enter production by the end of December.

According to OPEC, the average price of Iranian heavy oil in 2025 fell by more than $10 compared to last year, reaching $70.7; a trend similar to the OPEC oil basket, which has fallen by 30% over the last three years.

Referring to Article 15 of the Seventh Plan Law, Sajjad Khalili emphasized that without changing the financial rules and increasing the actual share of the National Oil Company, it is not possible to maintain production levels and achieve development goals.

Hamid Board emphasized at the ceremony honoring structural engineering and information technology managers that proper organization and decision-making based on current knowledge are the main solutions for solving employee issues and improving the quality of work.

According to an exclusive report by Energy Press, the refining industry entered the second half of the year in October 1404 with a slow setback and without significant jumps. This trend was repeated last month, and two refineries in Tehran and Bandar Abbas had a decrease in production. On the one hand, some refineries were able to maintain the improvement trend in monthly production and sales.