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Industrial
Success Exhibited at Tehran Fair
TEHRAN (Press TV) - Iran has put on display the latest
industrial developments of the country in the 11th Tehran
International Industry Exhibition, Press TV reported.
The four-day event kicked off on October 6 in the Iranian
capital Tehran, bringing together more than 850 companies
from 23 countries, including Malaysia, Turkey, India,
Germany, Romania, China and the UK.
Seyyed Majid Hedayat, head of the Industrial Development and
Renovation Organization of Iran, told Press TV that the
government has taken significant steps to expand cooperation
between universities and the industry sector.
“At the moment, there are over 50 projects that our
universities in the industry sector have undertaken and in
many cases there is even more than just one university
working on a single project,” he said.
On Saturday, eight joint university-industry projects were
unveiled, including enzyme research products as well as
innovative ways for sweetening natural gas and water
purification while the third generation of the Iranian
humanoid, the Surena robot, attracted the most attention.
'Iran Among Top 20 Aircraft Makers'
 TEHRAN (Dispatches) - A senior Iranian official says the
Islamic Republic of Iran is among the top 20 countries in
the world that can design and manufacture aircraft.
“We are now among the top 20 countries in the world in the
field of aircraft design and manufacturing and will be among
the top 10 in the future,” Managing Director of the Iranian
Defense Ministry's Air Industry Organization Manouchehr
Manteqi was quoted by IRNA as saying in Tehran on Saturday.
Pointing to the sanctions imposed by the US against Iran,
Manteqi added that Washington has boycotted the sales of
US-made aircraft as well as planes which 10 percent of their
parts are made in America to Tehran.
On June 9, 2010, the United Nations Security Council
approved imposing a fourth round of US-engineered sanctions
against Iran, particularly targeting its military and
financial sectors over accusations that the country is
pursuing a covert military nuclear program.
Iran rejects the allegations saying that as a signatory to
the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the
IAEA it has the right to develop and acquire nuclear
technology for peaceful purposes, including electricity
generation.
Shortly after the UN sanctions, the US also imposed
unilateral sanctions against Iran's financial and energy
sectors.
Manteqi, stressed that the “aviation industry and [aircraft]
designing centers in the world have good cooperation with
Iran in areas that are not under [US-levied] sanctions.”
The Iranian official said Iran has a “prominent position in
the region in the field of aircraft design and
manufacturing” due to its good capabilities in various areas
of the aviation industry such as designing, manufacturing,
component construction and overhaul.
Homa to Renovate Fleet
Head of Iran's national airline, IranAir (Homa), said he
plans to renovate his fleet by replacing old airliners with
new Airbus passenger planes.
Speaking to FNA on Sunday, IranAir Managing-Director Farhad
Parvaresh said the company plans to narrow down the type of
its airliners in a bid to reduce repair and maintenance
costs and replace old planes with new Airbus passenger
planes.
"We plan to decrease the type of our airliners and renovate
our fleet by purchasing more Airbus planes.
"This way we would sustain lower losses and enjoy more
productivity," Parvaresh added.
He said IranAir has moved on the same line of policy in the
last few years and more purchased Airbus planes.
He mentioned that at present his fleet has 18 Fokers, 18
Boeings and the rest are Airbus planes, but he didn't
mention the exact number of the Airbus planes of his
airline.
IranAir serves 35 international destinations in Asia and
Europe.
Since last year Iran has started a plan to renew its air
fleet not only through purchase of foreign planes, but also
through domestic production in a bid to improve conditions
in its aviation industry.
In August 2010, former Iranian Road and Transportation
Minister Hamid Behbahani announced the country's plans to
import 13 Boeing MDs and six Airbus passenger planes in a
matter of months.
The same month, Parvaresh announced that all of Iran's
Tupolev airplanes would be replaced with Boeing MD.
Also, Iran Air Tours, another Iranian airline company using
Tupolev planes, announced last October that it had replaced
its Tupolev planes with two Boeing passenger planes line
with the country's plan for replacing the Russian plane with
safer airliners.
Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi
announced in summer 2010 that his ministry was ready to
mass-produce the home-made IRAN-140 passenger and cargo
plane to help renovate the country's fleet of passenger
planes.
Later in October, former Minister Behbahani told FNA in
October that not just Tupolev, but all the planes produced
by the countries formerly known as the Eastern Block are
discarded from the Iranian fleet of passenger planes.
He added that 40 planes would be replaced by new passenger
planes which had or were being purchased from the other
countries as well as a number airliners which had been
overhauled by Iranian experts.
But Iran accelerated its Tupolev replacement plan in
December after the Russian Tupolev-manufacturing company
withheld the requested reports on the crash of its airplanes
in Iran.
Manouchehr Manteqi
NIORDC: Iran Can Export 15m Liters of Diesel Daily
TEHRAN (Press TV) - Managing Director of the National
Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC)
Alireza Zeighami says the Islamic Republic is capable of
exporting 15 million liters of diesel per day.
The average domestic consumption of diesel in Iran is 85
million liters per day, and as Iranian refineries currently
produce 100 million liters of diesel every day, 15 million
liters can be exported daily, Zeighami said at the Shazand
Oil Refinery in Iran's Markazi Province on Sunday.
The Iranian deputy oil minister also said Iran has invested
more than USD 3.5 billion in Shazand Oil Refinery project.
By launching the development plan of the Shazand Oil
Refinery, the refinery's daily gasoline production would
increase to about 16 million liters per day, Zeighami
explained.
On October 3, Managing Director of National Iranian Oil
Engineering and Construction Company Farhad Ahmadi announced
at the Shazand Oil Refinery that Iran has become
self-sufficient in producing premium gasoline.
Ahmadi also announced that Iran planned to increase the
volume of its daily output, which stood at around 70 million
liters, by more than 60 million liters.
Iran is the second-biggest oil producer of the Organization
of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (OPEC).
Alireza Zeighami
Gazprom Fired From Azar Oil Field
TEHRAN (FNA) - Senior Iranian oil ministry officials
announced here on Sunday that they have fired the Russian
gas company, Gazprom, from Azar oil field in Western Iran.
"We eventually came to the conclusion to cut our cooperation
with this company in Azar oil field and strike a deal with a
domestic contractor," Managing Director of the National
Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) Ahmad Qalehbani told FNA on
Sunday.
"Unfortunately, the Russian Gazprom company delayed
fulfilling its undertakings and the NIOC had given it
repeated warnings, which were never heeded (by the other
side)," he continued.
The NIOC chief further pointed out that a "consortium of
Iranian contractors will pick up work in the field", adding
that the Iranian contracting company would soon be named to
the media.
In November 2009, Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Gazprom, and
the National Iranian Oil Company signed a memorandum of
understanding to collaborate in the development of oil
fields and to study the development of two other Iranian
oilfields, Azar and Changule.
After repeated warnings, Iran gave a last opportunity to
Gazprom to fulfill its undertakings in mid September.
Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko, who was in Iran in
mid September to attend a ceremony to mark the official
launch of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, told reporters
that the two sides "have concluded an agreement to decide in
a month time if Gazprom will take part in the development
and exploitation of Azar oil field."
Ahmad Qalehbani
Vietnam Seeks Investing in Iran
TEHRAN (FNA) - Chairman of Vietnam-Iran friendship society
voiced his country's enthusiasm for investment and joint
ventures in Iran's oil and agriculture sector.
Speaking in a meeting with a number of economic activists
and members of Iran-Vietnam friendship society in Iran's
central province of Isfahan on Sunday, the Vietnamese
chairman of the friendship society said despite the long
distance between the two countries, "grounds are prepared
for their cooperation and interaction in different sectors".
He pointed out that Iranians and Vietnamese share several
commonalities in the cultural and economic sectors, and
hailed the two countries' developing relations, specially in
the last four decades.
He further called for the further development of economic
relations between Iran and Vietnam, and stressed, "Oil and
farming industries can prepare proper grounds for the
expansion of the two nations' relations."
Meantime, he viewed lack of information and data on the two
countries' economic status as a major challenge facing the
development of economic relations between the two countries,
and said, "The friendship society can take an important step
in boosting the level of the two countries' economic
exchanges by providing such data and information for the
other side."
He also voiced his country's readiness to launch joint
ventures with Iran in the oil and agriculture sectors, and
viewed exchange of farming products and investment in oil
exploration and extraction as among proper grounds for
bolstering Tehran-Hanoi mutual cooperation.
"Deep economic relations can provide a good support for the
other side at times of crisis," he concluded.
$5b Approved for SP’s Quick
Progress
TEHRAN (FNA) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has
approved a $5 billion credit line for Iran's Oil Ministry,
which sets aside $4.3 billion for the development of
projects in Iran's South Pars oil and natural gas field,
which is under joint development with Qatar.
Iran is developing 13 phases of the massive natural gas
field, as by 2013 Qatar is projecting massive exports from
its development. Last year Iran signed contracts with
domestic companies worth $21 billion for the development of
the first 8 phases of South Pars.
According to international energy experts, Iran has 137.6
billion barrels of proven oil reserves and 29.61 trillion
cubic meters of proven gas reserves.
Three months ago the National Iranian Oil Company announced
the discovery of yet another large deposit of crude oil and
natural gas in the South Pars field, which NOIC geologists
estimated would increase Iran's crude and gas condensate
reserves by one billion barrels.
The South Pars natural gas field reserves are currently
estimated at 14 trillion cubic meters of gas and 18 billion
barrels of gas condensates.
Kazakhstan, Iran to Boost Trade
TEHRAN (FNA) - Senior Iranian and Kazakh
officials agreed on Saturday to boost the two countries'
trade exchanges from the current $1.2b to $5b.
Speaking in a joint press conference with his Iranian
counterpart, Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov said
during his talks with his Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar
Salehi that the two sides have agreed on increasing trade
exchanges from $1.2 billion to $5 billion.
Kazykhanov described his meeting with Salehi as a very
important development in the promotion of bilateral
political and economic ties, and said the Islamic Republic
of Iran is a good market for Kazakhstan's wheat and can also
play a major role in transiting its products to the other
regional countries.
He reiterated Astana's interest in bolstering cooperation
between the two countries' traders, and said Kazakhstan
intends to expand the rail link between the two nations as
it plays a very important role in trade exchanges and swaps.
Asked if Iran and Kazakhstan have decided to ease visa
requirements and facilitate issuing visas for the two
countries' businessmen, he said the issue is being taken
into consideration.
Kazykhanov further stated that Tehran and Astana have many
grounds for cooperation and thanked Iran for supporting his
country's chairmanship in the Organization of the Islamic
Conference (OIC).
Kazykhanov arrived here in Tehran yesterday and is due to
hold meetings with more senior Iranian officials, including
Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, on Sunday.
Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov (L) and Ali Akbar
Salehi at a press conference
VP: Iran's Dam Construction
Industry Ranks World’s 3rd
TEHRAN (FNA) - Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Reza
Rahimi praised Iran for having a leading dam construction
industry, saying that the country ranks first in the region
and third in the world in this field.
"At present, Iran ranks third in the world in dam
construction while our dam building industry is unrivaled in
the region," Rahimi told reporters on the sidelines of the
13th meeting of the directors of power and water industry.
He further underlined Iran's progress in the hi-tech and
power generation industry, and said, "Despite the sanctions
imposed against the country in the past 33 years, Iran is
presently the first electricity producer in the region and
the 16th in the world."
Rahimi said that there are 135 dams under construction
which, once operational, will help to the development of
agriculture nationwide.
Iran is now viewed as a leading country in dam building.
Iranian specialists now provide consultation services for
the design and construction of various dams in different
sizes.
According to the Iranian officials, many countries including
Sri Lanka, Syria, and Tajikistan as well as African states
have entered either dam construction or consultation
projects with Tehran.
Iran's Fisheries Exports to Iraq
Surges
TEHRAN (Mojnews) - The Islamic Republic of Iran has exported
931 tons of its farm-raised fisheries from Mazandaran
Province to various countries especially Iraq during the
first half of the current Iranian calendar year (started
March 21), an official said.
Hassan Habibnejad, director general of Mazandaran Fisheries
Organization, said that the exports were valued at $2.8
million.
The province's fisheries exports in 2010 reached 51,206 tons
valued at $8.3 million, the official added.
He predicted that fisheries exports from Mazandaran Province
to reach $10 million in near future.
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