Oil Minister Javad Oji has said 260 trillion rials (about $902.9 million) has been allocated for the implementation of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC)’s priority projects in the current Iranian calendar year (started on March 21). Oji made the remarks in an Oil Ministry committee meeting held on Sunday …
Read More »Iran, Japan Discuss Developing Economic Cooperation
Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji and Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi in a meeting stressed the need for enhancing Tehran-Tokyo cooperation. Stating that Iran can play an important role in Japan’s energy supply, the Iranian oil minister called for boosting the level of economic cooperation between the two countries. “Japanese …
Read More »Iran can Help Japan Fulfill Energy Needs
Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji says Iran and Japan should work to expand their economic cooperation regardless of the sanctions in place against the Islamic Republic, adding Tehran can play a major role in fulfilling the East Asian state’s energy needs. Paying an official visit to Tokyo, Owji held a …
Read More »Venezuela Receives Third Iran-Made Oil Tanker
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro says the country has received an advanced oil tanker from Iran as part of a contract between Tehran and Caracas based on which the Islamic Republic has so far delivered three advanced vessels to the South American country. “We have just received a ship with the …
Read More »Iran Ready to Help Maintain Global Energy Security
Iranian Oil Minister Javad Oji has stressed that the global energy market needs an increase in the supply of Iranian oil, saying: “As a major producer of oil and petroleum products, we are always ready to play our role in maintaining global energy security away from politics.” Speaking after an …
Read More »Iran Ready to Increase Oil Exports with Sanctions Removed
Tehran is ready to increase its oil exports immediately after the sanctions are removed, Iranian Minister of Petroleum Javad Owji said on Friday, noting that in the first year of the 13th Iranian Government, over $100 billion of oil and gas agreements have been signed. Owji said on Friday on …
Read More »Iranian Oil Minister Says Tehran Ready to Meet Europe’s Energy Needs in Winter
Iran’s Oil Minister Javad Oji says the Islamic Republic has a good capacity to produce oil and gas and their commodities and is thus capable of partly relieving the energy shortage in the world. Oji said energy prices are out of control in the world and big petrochemical companies in …
Read More »Hormozgan to Turn into Refining Hub of Iran
Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji said numerous projects have been defined in the southern province of Hormozgan to turn it into a refining hub within years. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a virtual ceremony to launch a major gas project in Kish Island on Monday, Owji said that …
Read More »Iran’s Oil Production Capacity to Reach 4.038m bpd
National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) is planning to boost the country’s oil production to 4.038 million barrels per day (bpd) in the current Iranian calendar year (ends on March 20, 2023), Shana reported on Monday, quoting an official with the company as saying. According to Hormoz Qalavand, NIOC’s director of …
Read More »Iran’s Gas Export Income in 4 Months Equals that of Entire Previous Year
Iran has earned as much money from the export of gas in the past four months as it had received during the whole last year, the oil minister said. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Oil Minister Javad Owji said the income generated by …
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