The head of the Ministry of Oil's Flare Gas Collection Working Group, emphasizing the need to accelerate associated gas collection projects, said: "By order of the Minister of Oil, a special working group with broad powers has been formed to achieve complete collection of associated gases before the end of the Seventh Development Plan by monitoring, facilitating, and removing obstacles."

For the first time in the western region of the country, part of the oil-associated gas flare was extinguished with the operation of the first phase of the Dehloran NGL 3100 refinery, a measure that is considered to reduce flaring and recover associated gases in border oil-rich areas.