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  • Work on Taj Amir Dam in Nurabad City, Delfan County, Lorestan Province, has resumed after a 2-year hiatus, managing director of the provincial Regional Water Company said. “Construction of the…

  • So long as profit margin for retailers in the CNG sector remains low, the privately-owned industry is unlikely to grow, head of the Iran CNG Association said.

  • The $3.4 billion Persian Gulf Bidboland gas refinery was inaugurated Thursday in Khuzestan Province to trap associated gas from crude oil production instead of flaring, the managing director…

  • The first industrial and food-grade carbon dioxide cargo, produced at a CO2 recycling plant by the Sugarcane and Byproducts Development Company in Khuzestan Province, was exported to Iraq.…

  • The operation to lay offshore pipelines for Jask Oil Terminal has started, the head of the project said. "Shore pulling operation leading to the first mooring buoy of the terminal, which is 2.5…

  • Fifty-five million dollars was allocated for the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization (Satba) in this Persian calendar year (March 2020-2021) and will be doubled next year to $102…

  • Availability of and access to water is the responsibility of those who manage this finite resource. Period.  Professor Neda Torabi Farsani goes straight to the heart of the matter in her…

  • Six power projects were inaugurated in Yazd and Kerman provinces on Tuesday. Four were in Yazd and two in Kerman and will augment sustainable electricity supply to households and industries, the…

  • In the first seven months of the current calendar year (March-Oct 2020), over 4.755 million barrels of gas condensate was produced at phase 1 of the South Pars Gas Field, a supervisor at the…

  • Non-revenue water loss of the National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company (Abfa) is estimated at around 25% or 1.6 billion cubic meters per year, the company’s public relations manager…

  • Gasoline sold in big cities is compliant with Euro-4 emission standards, an official at the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company said. According to Fatemeh Kahi, a study recently…

  • With domestic and international demand rising at a rapid pace, investment in the key petrochemical industry, now around $80 billion, will reach $108 billion by 2027, managing director of the…

  • An estimated 130 million cubic meters of wastewater is produced by households in the northern Mazandaran Province, of which less than 20 mcm is recycled and the rest flows into the Caspian Sea…

  • The Energy Ministry in Tehran ruled out the possibility of a cyber-strike or sabotage on the state-run Iran Power Generation, Distribution and Transmission Company’s (Tavanir) infrastructure. “…

  • An estimated 1.75 million tons of urea fertilizer was delivered to the agriculture sector by petrochemical complexes from March 2020 to January, director of the production control department at…

  • Projects to supply potable water to 100 villages in four provinces were inaugurated on Tuesday, the Energy Ministry news portal Paven reported. Completed at a cost of $4.4 million, the projects…

  • A water treatment plant in Malayer County, Hamedan Province, will start in February to provide water to the western county from Kalan Dam, managing director of the provincial Regional Water…

  • Oil prices were higher on Wednesday, with US crude gaining for the seventh straight day, after industry data showed a bigger than expected drop in inventories and investors shrugged off rising…

  • To help reduce water use from depleting ground resources, as of March Tehran Water and Wastewater Company will supply Tehran Municipality 40 million cubic meters of treated wastewater a year for…

  • The state-run Iran Power Generation, Distribution and Transmission Company (Tavanir) said Tuesday the widespread power outages in the capital is due to cuts in feedstock (natural gas) deliveries…

  • Qeshm ultra-heavy crude oil refinery with a processing capacity of 70,000 barrels per day will go on stream soon, managing director of the refining complex said.

  • Brent crude oil prices fell by $1 per barrel on Monday, hit by renewed concerns about global fuel demand amid tough coronavirus lockdowns in Europe and new curbs on movement in China, the world’…

  • The National Iranian South Oil Company, the Iranian Offshore Oil Company and Iran Central Oil Fields Company -- all subsidiaries of the National Iranian Oil Company – signed contracts with…

  • Private investment in the loss-making power sector is almost zero, deputy head of the board of directors of the Power Generation Companies Syndicate said. “Lack of investment in the key…

  • Jam Petrochemical Company in Asalouyeh, Bushehr Province, is to increase sales by 33% compared to last year and will earn $800 million in sales by the end of the current calendar year in March,…