Power Co. in Tehran Denies Using Mazut

EghtesadOnline: It is often reported that use of mazut in power plants including the Besat facility is a major source of air pollution in Tehran. However, the managing director of the plant says it has not burnt mazut since 2013 and gas is the main feedstock.

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Publish Date:14/February/2021 | 14:07

While Smog Suffocates Tehran Bureaucrats Play Blame Games

EghtesadOnline: With air pollution hovering above emergency levels in Tehran amid news of widespread low-quality mazut use in power stations, bureaucrats are scapegoating the public and waging blame games.

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Publish Date:07/January/2021 | 15:35

Coronavirus Wipes Out Iran's Oil Derivative Exports

EghtesadOnline: Export of petroleum products including mazut , diesel and gasoline has hit a trough over the past few days, spokesman of the Petroleum Products Exporters Union said.

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Publish Date:01/March/2020 | 11:17

Shazand Refinery Cuts Mazut Output

EghtesadOnline: Shazand Refinery in the central city of Arak, Markazi Province, has cut production of mazut , an eco-unfriendly fuel, to less than 7% by optimizing its processing facilities, managing director of the complex said.

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Publish Date:18/May/2019 | 11:20

Refinery to Raise Gasoline Output, Cut Mazut

EghtesadOnline: Esfahan Oil Refinery Company’s collaboration with South Korea’s Daelim Corporation on optimizing the facility's processes will result in the production of about 8.5 million barrels of gasoline per day and lower mazut output to less than 10% of its total output, managing director of the National Iranian Oil Engineering and Construction Company said on Saturday.

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Publish Date:17/July/2017 | 08:30

Iran sets record in mazut export

EghtesadOnline: Director of National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) for International Affairs Mohsen Qamsari said that Iran exports 1.500 million tons of mazut monthly.

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Publish Date:11/July/2016 | 10:17

Gas Main Source of Power Generation

EghtesadOnline: Supplying natural gas, instead diesel and mazut , to power plants, has doubled to 200 million cubic meters per day since 2013, the National Iranian Gas Company chief said.

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Publish Date:08/September/2020 | 14:19

NIOC Halts Selling Liquefied Fuel on IRENEX

EghtesadOnline: Due to the big increase in liquefied fuel consumption over the last few weeks, the National Iranian Oil Company has stopped selling diesel and mazut on the Iran Energy Exchange, the company’s representative in charge of offering petroleum products in IRENEX said.

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Publish Date:17/February/2020 | 24:19

Iran: Power Plants Not Big Polluters

EghtesadOnline: Thermal power plants have a small share in air pollution as almost all use gas, and emissions from gas combustion are way below those from other fossil fuels like diesel and mazut , says head of Economic, Social and Environmental Studies Office at the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization (Satba).

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Publish Date:01/January/2020 | 10:51

Refineries in Iran Struggling to Comply With IMO Sulphur Cap

EghtesadOnline: To comply with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) new regulations for a 0.5% global sulphur cap for marine fuels, refineries are making concerted efforts to lower sulphur content in mazut production, spokesman of the Iranian Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters' Association said.

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Publish Date:09/October/2019 | 11:35

Iran's Non-Oil Foreign Trade Tops $42b

EghtesadOnline: Iran's overall non-oil foreign trade (except crude oil, mazut , kerosene and exports via suitcase trade) during the first half of the current Iranian year (March 21-Sept. 22) stood at $ 2.16 billion, indicating a 8.07% decline compared with same period of last year, the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration reported.

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Publish Date:08/October/2019 | 06:14

Noticeable Decline in Liquid Fuel Consumption

EghtesadOnline: Consumption of environmentally-unfriendly liquid fuels like diesel and mazut in power plants and farming declined 31% over the past six years, the Oil Ministry's deputy for planning and economic affairs said.

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Publish Date:06/October/2019 | 14:11

Mazut Worth $26m Offered as Forward Contract

EghtesadOnline: Over 68,000 standard parallel Salaf (forward) securities for fuel oil ( mazut ) worth 4 trillion rials ($26.8 million) was offered Monday by the National Iranian Oil Company on the Derivative Market of Iran Energy Exchange.

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Publish Date:14/May/2019 | 11:55

Comptroller Summarizes NIOC Numbers in Fiscal 2017-18

EghtesadOnline: The National Iranian Oil Company generated $8.6 billion from selling five petroleum products namely gasoline, diesel, mazut , kerosene and liquefied gas in the fiscal 2017-18, Fars news agency said as quoted by the Supreme Audit Court of Iran.

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Publish Date:29/April/2019 | 14:04

All Power Plants in Iran to Run on Gas by March

EghtesadOnline: More than 90% of power stations in Iran are running on natural gas as feedstock and concerted efforts are being made to stop using fuels like mazut to generate power by the end of the current fiscal year that ends in March 2018, the managing director of Iran Power Generation, Distribution and Transmission Company, or Tavanir, said.

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Publish Date:13/January/2018 | 09:33