Replacing eco-unfriendly fuels with natural gas, supplying petrochemical companies with gas as feedstock and exporting gas are among the Oil Ministry priorities in the current fiscal that started in March, the oil minister said.
"Daily gas output at 850 million cubic meters has increased 30% compared to five years ago when total production was 620mcm/d," Bijan Namdar Zanganeh was quoted as saying by Shana on Saturday.
Referring the first priority, he said, "Close to 20 mcm of gas is used in the domestic transport sector per day. Safeguarding the ecosystem is a major issue for us and more industries should be provided gas to cut their mazut and diesel consumption."
April 27, 2019 18:32
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