TEHRAN, Aug. 19 (MNA) Irans oil minister has said according to Geneva Joint Plan of Action, foreign oil tankers could easily enter Irans oil terminals.Bijan Namdar Zanganeh told Mehr News that the ministry would finish development of different phases of South Pars fields by 2017. Geneva Joint Plan of Action posed no restrictions upon insuring oil tankers entering Irans waters and ports to carry Irans oil to importing countries by world insurance giants, added Zanganeh.
In line with developments in Geneva, a foreign oil tanker will enter Irans ports for the first time since sanction relief covered by western insurance companies; it is Alexandra-1 tanker ship owned by Transland BulkCarriers Ltd., under the coverage of insurance provided by West of England P&IClub, which entered Assaluyeh in July 25 and harbored in Kharg to load LNG.
Zanganeh pointed to new oil export agreements in 2015. Iran would not limit its exports to any certain figure, and would continue to export amounts of oil decided by the government policies, added the oil minister.
On ministrys plan for seeking a way out of economic recession, he cited rises in gas exports as possible scenarios. With increased gas production and provision to industry and power plants, we could export up to $5bn in oil products in the current year and $12bn in the next year, Zanganeh said.
This week oil ministry delivered a report to Parliament Planning and Budget Commission where it announced export of crude oil and gas condensates up to $7.9bn in the first four months of the year. In the same period, $13bn of Irans oil income has been unfrozen, said the minister, and that we have planned to raise Irans natural gas production 200 million cubic meters per day by the next two years.
Zanganeh predicted that South Pars field project would be finished by 2017. The priority set for production from shared fields in South Pars would bring about decline in fuel consumptions in industry and power plants, he added, which he believed, help the economy out of the recession.
By Mehr News Agency
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