25 August 2011
Executive operations for Kerman's new oil depot, one of the country's largest for storing oil products, with a capacity of 340 million liters have shown a physical progress of 80 percent, an official of National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC) said.
Mohammad Mehdi Qaraei added that the objective of constructing this new oil depot was to transfer Kerman's oil storage facilities to outside the city.
"This new oil depot will facilitate the supply of liquid fuel to Kerman, South Khorasan and Sistan-Baluchestan provinces," he noted, Mehr News Agency reported.
He recalled that the depot covers an area of 60 hectares and is in its final stages of completion.
Earlier Mehr News Agency reported that two new oil depots with the total storage capacity of 17 million liter of gasoline and diesel would be inaugurated in Eslamabad-e Gharb and Qasr-e Shirin in Kermanshah province.
The move is aimed at increasing the export of oil products to Iraq and other neighboring countries.
A one-year contract to export 1.5 million liters of diesel daily to Iraq was signed by the two countries in June and the figure can be increased to 3 million liters, the report said.
Once the oil depot of Eslamabad-e Gharb becomes operational, four storage tanks with the total capacity of 11.2 million liters will be added to the country's oil storage capacity.
Executive operations for Kerman's new oil depot, one of the country's largest for storing oil products, with a capacity of 340 million liters have shown a physical progress of 80 percent, an official of National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC) said.
Mohammad Mehdi Qaraei added that the objective of constructing this new oil depot was to transfer Kerman's oil storage facilities to outside the city.
"This new oil depot will facilitate the supply of liquid fuel to Kerman, South Khorasan and Sistan-Baluchestan provinces," he noted, Mehr News Agency reported.
He recalled that the depot covers an area of 60 hectares and is in its final stages of completion.
Earlier Mehr News Agency reported that two new oil depots with the total storage capacity of 17 million liter of gasoline and diesel would be inaugurated in Eslamabad-e Gharb and Qasr-e Shirin in Kermanshah province.
The move is aimed at increasing the export of oil products to Iraq and other neighboring countries.
A one-year contract to export 1.5 million liters of diesel daily to Iraq was signed by the two countries in June and the figure can be increased to 3 million liters, the report said.
Once the oil depot of Eslamabad-e Gharb becomes operational, four storage tanks with the total capacity of 11.2 million liters will be added to the country's oil storage capacity.
© Iran Daily 2011
