{"id":3140,"date":"2025-02-12T23:41:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T20:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/energypress.ir\/en\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2025-02-13T02:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T23:14:34","slug":"declining-demand-for-gasoline-has-cast-doubt-on-the-future-of-the-methanol-to-gasoline-conversion-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energypress.ir\/en\/declining-demand-for-gasoline-has-cast-doubt-on-the-future-of-the-methanol-to-gasoline-conversion-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Declining demand for gasoline has cast doubt on the future of the methanol-to-gasoline conversion project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an exclusive report by Energy Press, Afshar Baziar, CEO of Shastan Commercial Investment Company, discussed the methanol-to-gasoline conversion project in an interview with this media outlet, and while pointing out the challenges of this project, he emphasized the need for a detailed economic and technical evaluation.<br \/>\nReferring to the increase in fuel and gasoline consumption in the country and the limitations of refinery capacities, he mentioned the methanol-to-gasoline conversion project as one of the proposed solutions. However, Baziar expressed doubts about its long-term economic justification, stating that this project requires a very high investment of about 500 million euros and is time-consuming.<br \/>\nReferring to the rapid developments in the world and the global approach towards electric vehicles, Baziar stated: Given the growing trend of electric vehicles in the world, it is expected that gasoline consumption will decrease in the coming years. Therefore, investing in a project that requires a long time to return on investment will carry a high risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an exclusive report by Energy Press, Afshar Baziar, CEO of Shastan Commercial Investment Company, discussed the methanol-to-gasoline conversion project in an interview with this media outlet, and while pointing out the challenges of this project, he emphasized the need for a detailed economic and technical evaluation. Referring to the increase in fuel and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,112],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-3140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-petroleum","category-top-slider","tag-gasoline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/energypress.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/energypress.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/energypress.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energypress.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energypress.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/energypress.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3143,"href":"https:\/\/energypress.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions\/3143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energypress.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/energypress.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energypress.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energypress.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}