Armenia key recipient of Iranian jet fuel exports

PanARMENIAN.Net - Iran exported jet fuel to Armenia, Afghanistan and Iraqi Kurdistan in 2015, while Tajikistan joined the list this year, IRNA cited the Director of Exports and Imports of the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company (NIOPDC) Esmaeil Hasham-Firouz as saying on Friday, May 27.

Citing the fivefold increase in jet fuel exports in 2015 compared to the year earlier, he said that last year the total figure exported stood at 15,000 tons, with only 3,000 tons of fuel sold abroad to Afghanistan in 2014.

As to Iran's plans to export gasoline in future, the official said that an Afghan delegation visited Iran recently to discuss the purchase of oil products, including gasoline.

Due to a gasoline shortage inside the country, Iran can't export it to other states, he said, noting that when Setare Khalij Fars Refinery comes on stream in late fall, gasoline exports will begin.

The refinery will produce 12 million liters of gasoline a day, four million liters more than the country needs, which can be exported to other states including Afghanistan, Hasham-Firouz said.