Iran launched its biggest gasoline production
facility on Thursday in a ceremony attended by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
the Fars news agency reported.
The facility was opened at the Shazand Imam
Khomeini Refinery, with a production capacity of 16 million liters of gasoline
per day. The refinery’s liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) production will increase
from 500 tons per day to 2,000 tons as a result.
Ahmadinejad said
the project shows that Iran has achieved self-sufficiency in oil refinery
construction and does not need foreign assistance in that respect, the agency
reported.
Earlier this year,
Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qassemi announced that Iranwill become a
gasoline exporting countrynext year.