TEHRAN, Jan. 14 (Shana) -- Deputy Petroleum Minister for International Affairs and Trading Amir Hossein Zamaninia says Iran has built up more national security in the post-JCPOA era, adding the deal gave Iran the freedom to choose from among foreign developers in its oil and gas projects.
TEHRAN, Jan. 13 (Shana) -- Iran says it will need at least 55 billion dollars in investment in its petrochemical sector to bring its annual output to 150 million tons from the current 60 mt/y production capacity within the next 10 years.
TEHRAN, Jan. 12 (Shana) -- Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh thanked Secretary General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo for kindly extending his condolences on the demise of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
TEHRAN, Jan. 11 (Shana) -- Arak Shazand Refiner has supplied over 4 billion and 480 million liters of Euro-4 petrol over the first 9 months of the current Iranian calendar year which began on March 20, the facility's chief said.
TEHRAN, Jan. 11 (Shana) -- The operator of phases 20 and 21 of the supergiant South Pars Gas Field says phase 21's platform is currently recovering 27 million cubic meters of natural gas per day, saying the platform is faced with no restrictions in supplying gas to onshore refining facilities.
TEHRAN, Jan. 11 (Shana) -- Tehran and Baghdad are in talks to strike deals regarding development of two joint oilfields, a senior Iranian petroleum official said.
TEHRAN, Jan. 09 (Shana) -- Iran is to launch 5 new petrochemical projects within the remaining two month of the current calendar year to March 20, a senior petrochemical official said.
TEHRAN, Jan. 08 (Shana) -- Managing Director of the National Iranian Gas Transmission Company Saeid Tavakoli says the company has altered its strategy in gas supply to northern provinces in order to ensure gas supply to the region now that Turkmenistan has cut off its gas flow to the region.
TEHRAN, Jan. 07 (Shana) -- Lorestan Petrochemical Plant has come on-stream with 90% of its nameplate production capacity, the facility's CEO said.
TEHRAN, Jan. 07 (Shana) -- Managing Director of Arvandan Oil and Gas Company (AOGC) Soltan Kamali said his company's production capacity has reached 400,000 barrels per day from less than 100,000 before Rouhani took office as Iranian president in 2013.
TEHRAN, Jan. 07 (Shana) -- Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh wrote Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani a letter on Saturday expressing satisfaction at the parliament's decision to cancel Article 53 of the budget bill that would allow supply of feedstock to petrochemical plants at a lower price that what the petroleum ministry had proposed.
TEHRAN, Jan. 06 (Shana) -- Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh says Iran’s gas output has raised its natural gas output by 50% over the course of the past three years.
TEHRAN, Jan. 06 (Shana) -- Iran is planning to build major petrochemical projects in the vicinity of the northwestern city of Tabriz in order to transform the region into a petrochemical heavyweight in the country and the region.
TEHRAN Jan. 04 (Shana) -- A senior petrochemical official says Iran is likely to raise its output by 10 to 20% this year from a year ago.
TEHRAN, Jan. 04 (Shana) -- The Research Center of Petroleum Industry (RIPI) says it is now focused on developing and deploying enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods on two oilfields in southwestern Iran, a RIPI official said.
TEHRAN, Jan. 03 (Shana) -- The public relations department of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) has released a statement in response to Turkmenistan government’s decision to restrict gas shipments to Iran since January 1.
TEHRAN, Jan. 03 (Shana) -- Iran has denied it has reached an agreement with the Kurdistan Region of Iraq for laying out joint oil pipelines.
TEHRAN, Jan. 02 (Shana) -- Iran says all its petrochemical facilities are operating and they have been faced with no shortages in feedstock supply despite Turkmenistan's abrupt cutting of gas flow to northern Iranian provinces.
TEHRAN, Jan. 02 (Shana) -- A senior Iranian petrochemical official says Iran's export of petrochemical products will hit 20 million tons by the end of the current Iranian calendar year to March 21 2017.
TEHRAN, Jan. 01 (Shana) -- Turkmenistan has cut its gas supplies to Iran in an unexpected move one day after the two neighboring countries announced they had reached an agreement to continue their gas cooperation for at least 5 years.
TEHRAN, Jan. 01 (Shana) -- Iran's National Petrochemical Company (NPC) has said the formula used for determining price of petrochemicals will stay unchanged in Iran for at least the next 10 years.
TEHRAN, Jan. 01 (Shana) -- Iran will start pumping crude oil from South Yaran oil field by March 2017 with 10,000b/d of output, operator of the field's development project said.
