Noticeable Decline in Liquid Fuel Consumption

Consumption of environmentally-unfriendly liquid fuels like diesel and mazut in power plants and farming declined 31% over the past six years, the Oil Ministry's deputy for planning and economic affairs said.
"Iran has abundant natural gas deposits and it is more cost-effective to use gas for power generation instead of liquid fuels that can be exported with higher tariffs," Houshang Falahatian was quoted as saying by Barq News.
Iranian power plants have received an average of 180 million cubic meters of feedstock gas per day in seven months (March-Oct), he noted.