Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Iran Set to Produce 1 Million Barrels of Oil a Day ‘Within Months’

 
Iran’s oil sector will be the first to benefit from the lifting of sanctions against Tehran.

As it re-enters the market, it eventually wants to produce the same volume of oil as it did about six years ago: three-and-a-half million barrels a day.

Analysts question how quickly Tehran can bring that volume to the market. The government says production will be raised in two phases.

Iran’s deputy oil minister Amir-Hossein Zamani-Nia explained that “the Iranian national oil company has the capacity to add 500,000 barrels per day to its oil exports, and bring this amount up to the figure 1 million in the next few months.” 

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Source: Euronews

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