Iran stopped distribution of non-standard gasoline, which was produced at petrochemical plants, in 2014. The country also increased the Euro-4 gasoline production by 10 times to around 25 million liters per day and also increased standard gasoline imports to 12 million liters per day – all in the last three years.
Motassaddi also said that the share of mazut in fuel consumption of power plants in Iran decreased below 10 percent since 2014.
Iran increased gas deliveries to power sector from 36 billion cubic meters per day (bcm) in the fiscal year to 2014 to about 58 bcm in the last fiscal year, which ended on March 21.
According to the World Bank statistics, Iran produced above 0.6 billion tons of CO2 in 2012, about 15 percent more than 2008. At the time, Iran ranked 7th in terms of producing CO2 worldwide.
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