National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company

Responsibilities and duties (as of 2009)

• Refining crude oil and producing a variety of oil products.
• Transferring crude oil from production bases and “Khazar Terminal” to the refineries and also transferring oil products from refineries and import bases to distribution procurement depots and distribution centres.
• Performing all refining projects and schemes, transfer and storing.
• Production, transfer and distribution of of oil products per day.
• Daily export of around of oil products abroad via oil terminals.
• Providing different sectors – industry, agriculture and power plants – with fuel and feed regularly e.g. petrochemical complexes.
• Providing consuming fuel to residential sector, business sector in urban and the peasantry communities all over the country.
• Providing more than 7 million vehicles – heavy and light – in the transportation sector with their required daily fuel.

Installations and capabilities

• Fourteen thousand kilometers of crude oil and oil product transfer pipelines.
• 150 pumping stations.
• Oil industry telecommunication network.
• Operational zones for pipelines and telecommunication.
• 35 operational zones for NIOPDC.
• 220 operational areas for NIOPDC.
• Storage tank installations with capacity. As of 2010, the storage capacity of oil products in the country was around.

Fuel imports

• Average daily gasoline consumption stood at in 2006 but fell to per day in 2007 concurrent with gasoline rationing plan and to after the full implementation of the first phase of the subsidy reforms plan. Gasoline production would reach per day in 2013.
• In 2008 Iran has imported nearly 40% of its market needs because of lack of refining capacity and contraband.
• In 2009, Iran spent paid $11 billion on imported fuel. In 2010, gasoline import declined to 30% of its market needs at of gasoline and of diesel fuel per day.
• In September 2010, Iran claimed that it has stopped importing gasoline according to the domestic capacity expansion plans. This statement was later denied by the government of Hassan Rouhani.
• As of July 2010, Iran produces between and of gasoline a day and until recently had acquired the remaining 30 percent, which is about to, through big oil companies.
• In 2014 Iran will import of gasoline per day overall, including of premium gasoline from India per day because some of the gasoline produced domestically does not meet the Euro-5 quality standards
• In 2016, fuel imports decreased 50% to about per day on average thanks to falling oil prices.

New facilities

Subsidiary companies

• National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Co.
• Management of Construction & Development of "CNG" Stations Co.
• National Iranian Oil Engineering and Construction Co.
• Oil Pipeline and Telecommunication Co.
• Oil Refining Co.