One million of the production capacity will be made possible once Persian Gulf Star Refinery comes fully online. Add to this 480,000 b/d of production capacity by Siraf Refining Park, he said.
He said that the rise in refining capacity will come while observing policies of the economy of resistance as instructed by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution.
He said the county will also begin recovering oil from the oil layer of the supergiant South Pars gas field, which Iran shares with Qatar in Persian Gulf waters by March 20, end of the current Iranian calendar year.