Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 39

27-Sep-2010

IRAN

Mirkazemi Announces Halt To Gasoline Imports As Sanctions Limit Supply

Irans Minister of Petroleum Masoud Mirkazemi announcedon 18 September that Tehran has stopped placing orders to import gasoline in view of the increase of its domestic gasoline production. We have not placed an order for the purchase of gasoline for one month. The countrys current gasoline production has increased to 66.5mn liters/day (418,285 b/d) from the previous...