The Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, emphasized the organized smuggling of petroleum products and the inefficiency in implementing the Seventh Development Plan, calling for national determination and serious measures to solve these problems.
The managing director of the National Gas Company said: Currently, there is an average of 260 million cubic meters per day of gas imbalance, but this does not mean that the Ministry of Petroleum has not taken measures, good measures have been taken in this area and we hope to be fully prepared this winter.
We consume 205 million liters of petroleum products daily in the country, which is an annual growth of 8%, and the figure of consumption in the transportation sector with 118 million liters of gasoline and 65 million liters of diesel daily, while we have 31 million vehicles in circulation in the country, with no standard and The criterion does not match.
The Vice President of Operations of the Northeast Oil Pipeline and Telecommunication Company said: From the beginning of April to the end of December, more than 5.5 billion liters of petroleum products have been transported by the pipelines of the Northeast region.
