Baghdad – WAA – Hassan Al-Fawaz
The Oil Products Distribution Company, affiliated with the Ministry of Oil, announced today, Wednesday, that the strategic reserve of gas oil has reached 800 million liters during the current year, while it indicated that a plan has been put in place to export aviation fuel produced by the Karbala refinery.
The Director General of the Oil Products Distribution Company, Hussein Talib, told the (INA): “There is a plan to export the surplus of white oil and gas oil,” indicating that “the power stations that operate on Iranian gas will be operated based on the gas oil product.”
He added, “The strategic storage, which reached about 800 million liters during this year, contributed to passing the summer season, and the situation is now under control,” noting that “electric power generation stations reached a consumption of 12 million liters per day from the existing production in refineries and refining capacities and what was built from strategic storage during the year 2024.”
He added, “There is a plan to export aviation fuel, which is produced by the Karbala refinery because it meets marketing specifications, and also in the near future shipments of surplus gas oil will be exported,” explaining that “according to the directives of the Prime Minister and his deputy, the Minister of Oil, there should be one million cubic meters of strategic storage of gas oil products, and the surplus will be for export purposes.”
He pointed out that “the ministry achieved self-sufficiency in the production of kerosene and white oil, and stopped importing them.”