Mohammad Sadeq Azimifar said at the first conference on combating fuel smuggling: "With the measures taken, 600,000 illegal fuel cards were collected. Also, the average consumption of petroleum gas (gasoline) was reduced by 4 million liters; a reduction that creates savings for the country equivalent to one billion dollars in one year."
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 Chief Justice of Semnan Province announced the arrest of three Garmsar municipality employees on charges of embezzlement and selling 270,000 liters of diesel quota belonging to municipal machinery outside the network.
More than 1.3 billion liters of diesel produced by Abadan Refinery in the months of July and August (at the same time as the critical days of power plant fuel storage) have been offered in the international ring of the energy exchange.
The CEO of Tehran Sewage Company announced the production of diesel and black carbon from the dewatered sludge in the process of wastewater treatment of the capital's treatment plants for the first time in Iran and said: We hope to be able to start production of these products this year.
The spokesman of the country's petrol stations association said: In all provinces, especially the border provinces and those close to the border, we see long queues to receive diesel in front of the stations, which causes many problems.
The scheme of allocating diesel quota based on the distance between the origin and the destination and in accordance with the bill of lading will be implemented only at the fuel supply stations located on the route on a trial basis from June.
