The Iraqi plan with Oman to build an oil pipeline could provide a new route for Iran to hide sanctions as Iraqi oil and send it freely, especially to China, by circumventing inspections in the Persian Gulf.

In recent years, the unprecedented increase in demand intensity and the growing and accumulating imbalance between production and consumption have become a major and challenging problem in the areas of economy and national security, placing the downstream sector of the oil industry under unprecedented pressure.

The head of the Shargh Oil and Gas Exploitation Company, announcing the company's full readiness to produce gas during the cold season, said: "The plan for this winter is to produce 65 million cubic meters of gas daily from the fields in the northeast of the country to meet part of the needs of the northeast and north of the country."

The head of the 5th Region of Operations of the Iranian Gas Transmission Company announced the successful completion of emergency repairs to the fourth national pipeline in the shortest possible time.

The Director of Investment and Financing of the National Development Fund said: "The Ministry of Oil is one of the fund's largest debtors, and about $17 billion has not been repaid so far."

The CEO of the specialized thermal power company said: The season of repairs and optimization of the country's thermal power plants has begun with an investment volume of 40 trillion tomans to carry out a 111,000 MW repair program.

The Bandar Imam Petrochemical VC unit returned to production after a period of emergency overhaul with a higher production capacity than before.

The CEO of the National Iranian Oil Company emphasized that the country's oil sales and exports are pursued in accordance with macro policies and using various methods, saying: "We do not see the need to respond to all rumors, because our focus is on carrying out our main tasks."

According to the latest statistics from the beginning of the water year to September 10, 2019, the status of the country's dams, the volume of dam reservoirs, 64% of the dam reservoirs are empty.

The Director of Energy and Carbon at the National Iranian Gas Company announced the development of a document to improve and modernize the brick industry in the country's brick production hub with a high share in gas consumption, and said: "About 300 cubic meters of gas are consumed to produce each ton of brick, but with changes in technology, this figure can be reduced to 27 cubic meters."