The Iranian Oil Pipeline and Telecommunications Company transferred over 5.8 billion liters of petroleum products to five northeastern provinces of the country in the last fiscal year (ended March 20, 2018), the managing director of the northeastern branch of the company said.
“The last fiscal year’s main achievement of the company's provincial branch was the safe and sustainable delivery of 5.85 billion liters of petroleum products, including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and kerosene, to Iran’s northeast,” Qasem Arabyar Mohammadi was also quoted as saying by Mehr News Agency on Wednesday.
The branch covers the five provinces of North Khorasan, South Khorasan, Khorasan Razavi, Semnan and Golestan.
IOPTC is a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company.
Giving a breakdown of oil products supplied by IOPTC to the provinces, Mohammadi said more than 2.9 billion liters of regular diesel, 408 million liters of Euro-4 diesel, 373 million liters of regular gasoline, 488 million liters of Euro-4 gasoline, 510 million liters of kerosene and 127 million liters of jet fuel were supplied to the provinces last year.
The official added that in this period, 236 million liters of diesel were delivered to three power plants in the cities of Semnan and Shahroud (both in Semnan Province) and Neyshabour (in Khorasan Razavi Province), showing a 15% rise compared to the previous fiscal year.
Stressing that the delivery of petroleum products by the company’s northeast pipelines is completely secure, Mohammadi said, “Fortunately, there had been no serious incident in the pipelines of IOPTC’s northeast branch in the past fiscal.”
Referring to the pipeline's average speed of 5.3 kilometers per hour for supplying petroleum products, Mohammadi said that as the northeast pipeline is more than 1,000 kilometers long, it takes about 12 days for the products to reach the farthest destinations in the area.
Mohammadi underscored that his company adopts measures such as intelligent pigging of pipelines, controlling the corrosion of metals by using cathodic protection technique and frequent inspections of installations to prevent pipeline incidents and enhance safety.
