An innovative pilot project in Yazd has shown that rewarding people for saving gas can achieve amazing results. Energy expert Hamed Sahebhonar believes that the project could be a model for the entire country and, with proper investment, generate billions of dollars in foreign exchange annually for the country.

The CEO of the National Iranian Oil Engineering and Construction Company announced the implementation of the "Real-time Monitoring of the Supply Chain and Distribution of Petroleum Products" project and said: "By equipping the supply chain with metering and monitoring systems, online and accurate information from each stage will be transferred to the monitoring center, and this information will be utilized in identifying problems, predicting needs, and better managing resources."

The head of the South Pars Gas Complex power plant stated that the nominal capacity of this power plant is 1,000 megawatts, and said: "With the launch of the combined cycle development plan of three steam blocks, this capacity will increase."

The director of the National Petroleum Products Distribution Company in Tehran said: The average daily consumption of gasoline in Tehran is 22 million liters.

Iranian urea export prices for January loading have increased to $307 per ton on a FOB basis, compared to $303-$304.5 per ton previously.

The second Trump administration is seeking to impose sanctions on 35 companies and ships to increase pressure on Iran, but experts believe that market conditions and the lack of support from China and Arab countries will prevent this from happening.

An energy expert said: "The energy imbalance in the country is increasing every year, such that gasoline consumption has increased by 50 percent in five years, and a similar situation exists in other energy carriers. It seems that in these circumstances, an energy ministry should be established."

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency pointed out the role of substandard gasoline in air pollution and said: "Some of the gasoline consumed by mobile sources, including cars, does not comply with the national standards approved by the National Standards Organization."

It might not be wrong to claim that the 1990s were one of the most corrupt decades in Iran's oil history. The decade in which the massive Petrochemicalgate corruption scandal was revealed was close to the same years in which the issue of missing oil rigs became a subject of black satire.

Referring to the gas outages of some petrochemical companies, the Secretary General of the National Petrochemical Industries Employers Association said: "Unfortunately, this issue has put pressure on production and we predict that our exports will decrease by at least $1 to $1.3 billion compared to last year." Recently, the CEO of the National Petrochemical Company announced that the Central Bank has allowed 50 percent of the foreign exchange earned from the export of petrochemical products to be invested in the petrochemical companies themselves.