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Heroice Reconstruction and Development Campaigns
The culmination of the war was followed by oil industry reconstruction and renovation efforts. Refining, production and export capcities surpassed their pre-war era levels. Despite restrictions emanating from sanctions imposed on Iran by the U.S and its allies, the Ministry of Petroleum pursued oil industry development plans.
Oil industry development plans were based on 5 Major approaches.
1- Expansion of the petrochemical industry, in light of its value-added products in world markets, and requirements of domestic downstream industries;
2- Giving priority to the expansion of the gas network to industrial centers, powerplants, and the residential sector, because of economic and environmental advantages of natural gas, and its substition as a clean burning fuel, for valuable oil products;
3- Making investments in the upstream sector of the oil industry, and executing exploration projects to strengthen Iran’s position as the second oil producer among OPEC member countries, and as the second holder of huge world natural gas reserves. Discovery of giant fields of Azadegan, Tabnak, and Hama have been some of the outcomes of these efforts;
4- Playing an active role in OPEC and other international fora to bring stability to world markets.
5- To secure financial resources reqaired for development projects through buy-back contracts, as a practical approach to the implementation of development projects, while placing emphasis on the utilization of domestic expertise and investment potenials, and the transfer of technology;
Thus the Iranian oil industry was able to make great achievements in different sectors in recent years, and experience a fundamental change in growth and development.
Negotiation of different contracts for the expansion of oil and gas fields inculding the 8 phases of South-Pars fields, and offshore oil fields’ development, absorption of foreigin resources for exploration projects, increasing the production capacity of pertrochemical industries to 12 milions tons per year, form 500 thousand tons per year in per-Islamic Revolution era, raising the country’s crude oil refining capacity to 1.7 million barrels per day from a bout 700 thousand barrels per day carrying out varied programs in “ The Petrochemical Economic Zone ” as the nation’s major econmic pole, and in The Special Economic and Energy Zone of Pars ”, expansion of the domestic gas consumption network to cover 370 cities or 6.5 milion households.
considerable increase in the number of high pressure pipelines, as well as the unprecedented increase in the level of gas processing and transmission, are some of the achievements of the Ministry of petroleum in recent years.
In the international arena too, the Ministry of Petroleum has pursued the objective of strengthening the status of OPEC through the expansion of cooperation with OPEC member countries and other oil producer and consumer nations.
In the years after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, especially in the very recent years, the petroleum industry of Iran has had a unique performance because of a more favorable international scene and the loss of intensity in American economic sanctions. Now in its 24rd year of self- reliance, the national petroleum industry is moving on with full strength and confidence utilizing up-to- date technology, powerful and innovative management, highly skilled and creative manpower resource, and a futuristic approach to planing development projects.
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