0136 GMT January 18, 2021
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Iran has begun taking crude oil from a new platform installed at Salman oilfield, a major oil reserve located in the Persian Gulf and shared with the United Arab Emirates.
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Iran produced over 18.5 million tons of steel ingots during the first 11 months of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2019-February 19, 2020), registering a four percent rise compared to the corresponding figure of preceding year which was 17.7 million tons.
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Iran produced 2.086 million barrels per day (mbd) of oil in January, a 9,000-bpd decrease from 2.095 million bpd in December 2019, according to OPEC’s latest monthly report.
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Production of steel ingot rose four percent in Iran during the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-Decemebr 21, 2019).
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Iran’s foreign oil sales, once a staple of the country’s yearly budgets, will account for a tiny portion of government's projected revenues equal to seven percent in the next Iranian calendar year beginning on March 21, 2020.
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Saudi state oil firm Aramco told Japanese refiner JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy about a possible change in shipment, raising concern about the kingdom’s ability to supply crude oil after attacks on its refineries, the Nikkei Asian Review reported.
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The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) is planning to offer two million barrels of heavy crude oil in Iran Energy Exchange (IRENEX) on Tuesday for the second consecutive week.
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The National Iranian Oil Company will offer two million barrels of light crude oil at the International Ring of the Energy Exchange (IRENEX) on Tuesday at the base price of $67.32 per barrel.
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China’s crude oil imports from Iran hit a five-year high in April at 792,380 bpd or 3.24 million tons, before the expiry of US sanction waivers for Iranian oil on May 2, data released by the Customs General Administration showed.
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China, the world’s top oil importer, is set to start 2019 buying little or no crude from the United States despite a three-month truce in a trade scrap between the two nations, with relatively high freight costs and political uncertainty choking demand.
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Some Iranian crude exports are coming into the international market through non-Iranian companies that are offering their VLCCs for transporting as well as storing Tehran's oil, several oil shipping industry sources in Malaysia, Singapore, the UK and China said this week.
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Domestic Economy Desk
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Indian public sector companies have already placed orders with Iran for crude oil supply during November, a senior government official said in Singapore on Friday.
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The United States cannot stop Iranian oil exports by imposing sanctions on Iran, Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said on Tuesday, warning that such restrictions would ensure that the market remains volatile.
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