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  • Crude Surges as Trump Announces US to Fill SPR
    Oil futures surged in aftermarket trading after Donald Trump said the US government will take advantage of low oil prices and buy "large quantities" of crude to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve...
  • Coronavirus Could Hit Clean Energy Investment
    The coronavirus pandemic has stoked concerns of a global economic recession as it spreads across the world, igniting one of the sharpest oil price plummets in the last 30 years and causing the...
  • Mapna Gas Turbines Will Use Hydrogen as Fuel
    Iran's engineering and energy giant, the Mapna Group, is manufacturing hydrogen-fueled gas turbines, which consume less gas to generate electricity and instead of hazardous emissions discharge...
  • Mazut Impairs Power Plants’ Overhaul
    Feeding thermal power stations with liquefied fuel (mazut) instead of natural gas from Dec 2019 to Feb 2020 is taking a toll on the plants’ overhaul operations, the Energy Ministry spokesman for...
  • Oil Sets for Biggest Weekly Thumping
    Oil prices were set for their worst weekly drubbing since the 2008 financial crisis, despite eking out a 2% on Friday, as investors eyed evaporating demand from the coronavirus pandemic and a...
  • Unprecedented Decline in Gasoline Sales
    The coronavirus outbreak has decreased the sale of gasoline at gas stations across Iran by a massive 50%, a board member of the Gasoline Station Owners' Association said. “Due to the noticeable...
  • APG Collection Project in Southern Petrochem Plant Near Completion
    The project to collect associated petroleum gas at Amir Kabir Petrochemical Plant in Mahshahr, Khuzestan Province, is in the final stages. Upon completion by summer, the APG will be used as...
  • Russia Keeps Door Open for OPEC
    Russia stepped up its price war with Saudi Arabia by warning it can raise oil production, while also saying further cooperation with OPEC is possible.
  • Iranian Car Owners See the Wisdom of CNG Use
    Compressed natural gas consumption up until last week reached 24.4 million cubic meters per day, the deputy director of National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company said. This shows a 30...
  • $860m Spent to Add 630 MW to Iran's National Power Grid
    Close to 630 megawatts of electricity was added to the national grid on Wednesday, raising overall installed capacity to 83,630 MW, head of Iran’s Thermal Power Plants Holding Company said. "Two...
  • Japan Spot LNG Prices Fall
    Prices for spot liquefied natural gas cargoes imported into Japan, the world’s biggest buyer of the fuel, fell in February to the lowest since the country’s trade ministry started compiling data in...
  • Petrochemical Companies Join Campaign Against Coronavirus
    One of the important measures taken by petrochemical companies in the past several days to help fight the rapidly spreading coronavirus in Iran has been to increase production of javel water and...
  • Water Production Up 500,000 cm/d
    Water production in Tehran reached 17 million cubic meters per day between February 21 and March 1. According to ILNA, the figure shows a 3.5% rise (500,000 cubic meters/day) compared to same time...
  • Restrictions on Subsidized Gasoline Quotas
    Fuel cards that hold 360 liters of gasoline will not be charged from April, head of the Planning Department of the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company said. “Motorists can save...
  • Oil Prices Sink to 3-Decade Low
    Losing more than a quarter of their value, oil prices were set on Monday for their biggest daily rout since the first (Persian) Gulf War, after Saudi Arabia cut its official prices in a market...
  • Small-Scale Power Plant in Kurdestan Near Completion
    A small-scale power plant with distributed generation system in Marivan County, Kurdestan Province, will come online before the onset of the summer season, managing director of West Regional...
  • Dams Full in Mazandaran Province
    Since the beginning of the water year last September, the amount of water stored in dams in Mazandaran Province has jumped by 40% to reach 311 million cubic meters, head of the maintenance...
  • Iranian Company Indigenizing Parts of Hydropower Plants
    Iranian engineers have indigenized an important piece of equipment used in hydroelectric power plants, the deputy for operation affairs at Iran Water and Power Resources Development Company. “The...
  • Electrification of Agro Wells Is Best Way Forward
    Electrification of agriculture wells will help save 750 million liters of diesel per year, and the saved fuel can be exported via the Iran Energy Exchange. As per an agreement concluded between...
  • Dams Built in Geographically Wrong Places
    Some dams in Iran have not been constructed in the right place, head of the Water Affairs Faculty at Shahid Chamran University in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province said. “Although dams like Karkheh on the...
  • Saudi Oil Price Cuts Reigniting Market Share War With Russia
    Asian oil traders are bracing for another round of hefty price falls on Monday in key benchmarks Brent and Dubai after the world’s top exporter Saudi Arabia slashed prices, reigniting a market...
  • South Pars Phase 13 Last Deck Installed
    To fast track production in the South Pars Gas Field off the Persian Gulf, the last offshore platform of its Phase 13 (13C) was installed on Saturday. According to Payam Motamed, operator of Phase...
  • Recycled Water Use Growing in Zanjan
    With completion of the first phase of the Zanjan Wastewater Treatment Plant, it now covers over 220,000 people in the northwestern city. Construction of the second phase started on Tuesday. When...
  • Installed Power Capacity at 83 Gigawatts
    Installed power generation capacity in Iran reached 83,000 megawatts. Deputy Energy Minister Homayoun Haerisaid this at a ceremony to inaugurate the first phase of Khorramabad Combined Cycle Power...
  • Zanganeh Says OPEC+ Needs Further Production Cuts
    OPEC and its allies need to cut crude output by 500,000 barrels per day to clear the oil market's oversupply from the coronavirus outbreak, Iran’s Oil Minister said upon his arrival in Vienna on...

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