Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. Mar. 16
By Rahim Zamanov - Trend:
Iran's deputy oil minister Abbas Kazemi assured Iranians that there will be no gasoline shortage in the last days of the current year (to end March 20) and the holidays, Iran's Mehr News Agency reported.
"The country's gasoline reserves are one billion liters more than the previous year," he explained.
He went on to note that Iran's average gasoline consumption has been increased by 4-5 liters per day in the last days of the year.
Iran's Mehr News Agency reported on Mar. 4 that some 24 billion liters of gasoline was consumed in Iran in the first eleven months of the current Iranian calendar year (which started on March 21, 2013).
The country's average gasoline consumption was around 68 million liters per day in the mentioned figure.
The figure has risen to over 70 million liters per day in the 12th calendar month, and is expected to reach 100 million liters in New Year holidays.
Kashkouli said on January 10 that the country's gasoline consumption has faced a 7.6-per cent increase compared to previous year, the ISNA News Agency reported.
"We are currently storing enough gasoline to meet the country's demands in the New Year holidays and the next summer," Kashkouli explained.
Over 6.534 billion liters of gasoline was consumed in Iran during the summer this year.
The figure is 500 million liters more than the same period of time previous year, the IRNA News Agency reported.
Iran's average gasoline consumption stood at 68.5 and 68.2 million liters per day in the first and second months of summer, respectively.
The figure reached 74 million liters in the third month of summer.
Iran's average gasoline consumption stood at around 71.6 million liters per day in the previous Iranian calendar year, the ISNA News Agency reported.
It is while according to the Deputy Oil Minister Alireza Zeyqami Iran's average gasoline consumption stands at around 63.5 million liters per day.
