Wastewater network in towns in the southwest of Tehran is expanding gradually, an official at the Tehran Province Water and Wastewater Company said. The managing director of TPWWC’s West Tehran…
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Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said the ministry's annual turnover [export revenue not included] stands at $2 billion. "The earnings are invested in expanding the national grid in urban…
According to agreements between Iran and Armenia at the 16th session of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission in Tehran last month, it was decided that the third electricity transmission line…
China's plans to levy 5% tariff on US crude imports from September 1 caused a drop in benchmark crude prices Friday, jeopardized seaborne US crude shipments heading to China and limited buying…
On the occasion of Government Week (August 24-30), 19 water and 62 electricity projects were inaugurated Saturday in Tehran Province. Water projects will supply potable water to remote rural…
Thermal power capacity has risen by 16% or 9,000 megawatts over the past six years. According to the Energy Ministry news portal, the output has increased from 56,000 MW in 2013 to 65,000 MW…
In line with the government's goal of linking 90% of suburban homes to the national gas network by 2022, the grid is passing through rugged mountain areas in Yazd, Gilan, Kurdestan, Semnan…
Almost 4,447 smart meters have been installed on authorized water wells in Hamadan Province, the managing director of Hamedan Regional Water Company said. "The agriculture sector accounts for…
National Iranian Drilling Company, a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company, is collaborating with 230 local manufacturers, especially in Khuzestan Province, to indigenize drilling…
The plan to use bank debit cards as fuel cards could have prevented the issuance of at least 10 million smart fuel cards and saved a lot of money. It remains unclear why its implementation was…
Approximately $454 million is added to the Energy Ministry's debt to the private sector every year, the Energy Ministry’s spokesman for the power department said. "Although the ministry paid $1…
Norway’s Equinor and Russia’s Gazprom, Europe’s largest suppliers of pipeline gas, have lost market share as a result of the LNG import surge that has occurred over the past 10 months.
A new small-scale power plant with distributed generation system joined the national grid in Anzali Free Zone, Gilan Province, the managing director of Gilan Regional Electric Company said.
Brent crude oil futures rose above $60 a barrel on Wednesday after industry data showed a larger-than-expected drop in US crude inventories, but lingering worries about a possible global…
To reduce gas flaring in Khuzestan Province to zero the construction of a plant to collect 1.5 million cubic meters of associated petroleum gas, or APG, per annum is completed, managing director…
While many road construction projects are on hold waiting for free asphalt (bitumen) from the government, a great deal of tar produced inside the country is exported, the people’s representative…
Despite the fact that electricity demand jumped up over the last two months, the Energy Ministry exported 2.5 million kilowatt hours of power between May 22 and August 11. Energy Minister Reza…
Despite claims from politicians that Australia’s contribution to global carbon emissions is not that big, the country ranks third in the world in terms of fossil fuel exports by carbon dioxide…
Rapidly declining water resources has impelled the government to increase the number of plains from which water withdrawal is banned from 15 in 1968 to 405 now -- up 2,600%.
By the end of the current fiscal year (March 2020) 20 power plants will come online soon, the Energy Minister said. With total capacity of 3,000 megawatts, the plants are under construction in…
Chinese investments in the oil and gas industry of Nigeria have reached $16 billion, according to a senior official at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, but the industry needs even…
Afghan minister of water and energy has invited private companies in Iran’s power sector to help his war-ravaged country rebuild its electricity infrastructure.
The Energy Ministry has 1360 water, power and wastewater projects in South Khorasan Province that have registered average progress of 40%, the energy minister said Thursday. In his trip to the…
Private sector in Iran cannot make miracles happen in international oil business under the sanctions regime as it was never trained for a large and unknown market.
Buildings account for a significant share of energy waste (almost 50%) in Iran including households, commercial sectors, private companies and state organizations. Close to 2.4% of the…
