An official at National Iranian Oil Refining & Distribution Company (NIORDC) Esmail Hasham Firouz, while pointing to the country’s plan to export its first cargo of gasoline to Tajikistan, called Iraq and Afghanistan as Iran’s traditional markets of petroleum products.
Hasham Firouz discussed Iran's latest status of oil products export to regional markets to the reporters on Sunday. “Iran will soon send its first 500-ton gasoline shipment to Tajikistan in Central Asia,” Hasham Firouz told reporters.
He pointed to the beginning of the marketing and identification of new markets for export of petroleum products, particularly kerosene, Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and gasoline, saying that gasoline export to Tajikistan will be operational for the first time and if successful, the export of oil products will be expanded to the Central Asian countries.
Stating that Iran’s current export concentration is on the export of oil products to Iraq and Afghanistan, NIORDC official said, based on the contract with the Iraqi central government, three million liters of gasoline is exported to the neighboring country per day.