Iranian researchers at Amirkabir University of Technology designed and produced a semi-industrial prototype multiphase oil well flowmeter, a technology exclusively owned by US firms. “Production and operation of oil and gas fields requires the use of flow measuring equipment at the outlet of wells and in the fluid transmission line, …
Read More »Iran’s Non-Oil Exports Value Hits $13.5 bn in H1
Deputy Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade put the country’s non-oil exports value in the first six months of the current Iranian calendar year (from March 21 to Sept. 22) at $13.5 billion. At the condition that spread of coronavirus, COVID-19, has decreased international trade as much as 14 percent, …
Read More »Iran to Put Major NGL Project on Stream by March
Iran plans to put into operation a great natural gas liquid (NGL) plant by March, Head of the Khatam-al Anbiya Construction Headquarters Saeed Mohammad said, adding that the plant will collect flare gases from Southwestern oilfields. Mohammad said that the first phase of NGL 3200 project would use 250 million …
Read More »Iranian Scientists Find Low-Cost Method to Produce Gasoline, Petrochemical Products
Iranian researchers at Amirkabir University of Technology produced gasoline and petrochemical products with natural gas through a clever and low-cost method. “The use of oil in production of catalysts is highly expensive, and in this project we used natural gas and converted the gas into light olefins by MTO method,” …
Read More »Iran’s Nuclear Power Capacity to be Tripled
Iranian Energy Minister announced on Sunday that the country plans to increase its nuclear power capacity from its current 1,000 megawatts to 3,000 MW in future. In this regard, the construction of two new 1,000-megawatt-nuclear power plants is underway in Bushehr, Reza Ardakanian said. The minister lamented that lack of …
Read More »Iran Exports $2.47 Billion Goods from Bushehr Province in Past Six Months
More than 11 million tons of non-oil goods worth over $2.47 billion were exported from Bushehr Province in southern Iran during the past six months of the current Iranian year (starting from March 20), Bushehr Province Department of Industry, Mine and Trade said on Sunday. Hossein Hosseini said that China, …
Read More »Iran’s Fajr Jam Refinery Ups Gas Output by 7 Percent in 6 Months
CEO of Fajr Jam Gas Refining Company Abdolsamad Najafi announced a seven percent rise in gas production of the facility in the first half of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2020-September 21, 2020). “Refining and production of natural gas as the main product of this company has increased by …
Read More »Iran Ready to Connect Power Grid to Europe
Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian expressed his country’s preparedness to supply electricity to Europe. Ardakanian said that, enjoying enormous energy resources and having skilled manpower and facilities in the field, Iran can pave the ground for expansion of energy corridors, especially electricity transmission corridor. “In order to help promote communications …
Read More »Steel Industry in Full Swing
Iran’s crude steel production reached 18.625 million tons in the first eight months of 2020 to register an 11.3-percent increase year on year, Mehr news agency reported. The country’s steel output stood at 16.739 million in the previous year’s same eight months. The increase in the Iranian steel production comes …
Read More »Iran, Belarus Explore Ways for Developing Energy Coop.
Islamic Republic of Iran and Republic of Belarus explored avenues for broadening and developing bilateral cooperation in the field of energy. Iranian Ambassador to Belarus Saeed Yari met and held talks with Viktor Karankevich Energy Minister of Republic of Belarus in Minsk on Wed. In this bilateral meeting, the two …
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