Iran's energy sector review

Alamdar Babayi, the director for major repairs at South Pars Gas Complex Company, announced on July 6 that the fifth refinery of South Pars gas field, with capacity to produce 57 million cubic meters of gas per day, is under repair. With five refineries, Iran produces 240 million cubic meters of per day from the South Pars gas field. It is while the oil ministry's latest report suggests that in the past two weeks the liquid fuel consumption of the country's power plants has been doubled. According to SHANA News Agency, some 2.02 billion liters of liquid fuel (diesel oil and mazut) was consumed in Iran in the first two weeks of summer (145 million liters per day). The figure was around 1.044 million liters (some 150 million liters per day) in the last week of spring. Iran's total liquid fuel output (including gasoline, diesel oil, mazut, and kerosene) is a little more than 265 million liters per day. In another words, the country's power plants consumed over