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NIOPDC |
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The First in the Region |
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The
National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company (NIOPDC) was established in
1928, being responsible for supply and distribution of oil products for over
80 years.
The
NIOPDC having 37 zones, 232 regions, 86 oil products depots with a capacity of
12 billion liters, 45 aviation fuelling centers, management and supervision of
2870 gas and gasoil stations, 1692 CNG stations and about 15 thousand oil and
gas tankers and also using railway tank wagons, oil products transfer
pipelines and fuel carrying vessels is responsible for the distribution of
over 211 million liters of several oil products per day all over the country.
In order
to meet the domestic and international market requirements, the NIOPDC has
started expanding its storage and distribution facilities through constructing
9 new oil depots, 59 storage tanks with the capacity of 6.1 billion liters in
22 locations and 4 aviation fuel stations to improve its storage capacity to
18 billion liters. It is noteworthy that many of the projects were launched in
2009 and the rest are under implementation.
The
International Activities:
1- Oil Products Export:
With the new approach of the Oil Ministry, the NIOPDC having the suitable
infrastructure in oil products trading and transportation became responsible
for the delivery of the oil products of the country’s refineries in the
international markets since 2007. In 2007, the total amount of oil products
including sulfur, gasoil and kerosene exported by the NIOPDC to the neighbor
countries was 343,000 metric tons. By reviewing the export process and the
promotion of the knowledge and the related experience, in 2008, the total
amount of export added up to 3.5 tons. In addition to sulfur, gasoil and
kerosene, other products such as fuel oil, heavy naphtha, and aviation fuel
were added to the export list. Regarding the deepened recession in the
international financial markets, by the adoption of the special arrangements
and benefiting from a relative advantage, the export amount was kept 3.5
million metric tons. The exported products that year were fuel oil, naphtha,
gasoil, kerosene, aviation fuel, gasoline and sulfur to the countries such as
China, Singapore, South Korea, Iraq, Armenia and Afghanistan.
It is
noteworthy that the produced oil products in the refineries of the country
during these years were utilized officially for the first time in the neighbor
countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Armenia that cause employment in the
related fields, utilizing the transportation fleet in the low-congested months
of the year and also controlling the oil products smuggling.
In spite
of the special conditions and variations in the international arena, the oil
products export trend continued in 2007 and several kinds of the oil products
were exported to the different countries proportionate with the market
conditions.
2- Bunkering:
Bunkering
in the Persian Gulf region which is one of the new fields of activity of the
company was started with selling 17500 tons of fuel oil in the second half of
2006 and in 2007 it reached 1,030,000 tons, in 2008, the figure reached
2,150,000 tons, and in 2009 it reached 3,386,000 tons. With the enhancement of
two new centers, the bunkering operations has been carried out since 2010 and
at the present time it is being fulfilled in the indigo coasts of the Persian
Gulf and Oman Sea.
With respect to the existing capacities in Iran’s petroleum industry and the
growth in the demand rate in the Persian Gulf region and Oman Sea, the NIOPDC
is intending to increase the amount of bunker delivered to vessels by 4
million tons, annually.
3- Swap:
The
operation for swap of LPG, gasoline, gasoil, and fuel oil from the Central
Asian Commonwealth countries to the southern coasts of Iran in the Persian
Gulf and other border regions of the Islamic Republic of Iran is chief among
the activities of the NIOPDC.
It is
noteworthy that since 2007 the volume of swap operation by the NIOPDC has
amounted to 1,173,640 tons.
This
company intends to rank the first in the region to answer the domestic and
international consumption markets through achieving the advanced technologies
and updating all its operational and administrative activities and cooperation
with the universities and research institutes. |
