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receiving more than 4.5 million barrels of the possible reasons for stopping imports GAS
crude oil, in addition to 4,000 tons of natural and, in return, semi-official accounts have
gas, and 36,000 tons of diesel, via Iranian oil come out regarding the disruption of Iranian IGEDC Planning to build
tankers within the Iranian credit line, while imports by Egypt’s decision to prevent the
the regime-controlled areas need about 6 passage of Iranian tankers through Suez mini-LNG Plant
million barrels per month, according to Canal.
previous officials’ statements. In April 2021, the regime’s Prime Minister, The Iranian Gas Engineering and
The recent visit of the head of the Syrian Hussein Arnous, said the government was Development Company (IGEDC) announced
regime, Bashar al-Assad, on 8 May, to Tehran working monthly to secure 3.5 million barrels that it intends to enter the field of mini-LNG
activated the credit line in its new version, and through imports, but due to the suspension and acquire the technology for construction of
after the visit, the successive arrival of Iranian of navigation in the Suez Canal, supplies its production facilities.
oil tankers began, in light of the stifling fuel were delayed, forcing it to organize stock Reza Noshadi, the IGEDC CEO, Mohsen
crisis experienced by the regime areas. distributions by 25%. Mazloum Farsibaf, Director of Research
On 25 September, the General Manager of Al-Fateeh believes that Iran’s transfer and Technology of National Iranian Gas
Baniyas Refinery, Mahmoud Qassem, stated of additional oil shipments cannot be Company (NIGC), and a delegation visited
that he had started raising the amount of fuel separated from the rest of the developments the LNG and Helium production unit of
supplied daily to the power plants because the in the region, such as the decline of Russian Amin Fanavar Sharif Company and visited
operation and production process continued involvement in Syrian affairs in the interest of the operation process of this plant to examine
inside the refinery without interruption in the the Iranian presence. the capabilities and capacities of this industrial
recent period. “The Iranian nuclear negotiations reached unit.
“We no longer have tanks to put the crude a ‘deadlock,’ which enhances the possibilities IGEDC, in line with its mission to obtain
oil inside the refinery because it is full, so the of escalation in the region. The oil supply the technologies needed by the country’s gas
arrival of the tankers did not change anything file is in the same context as the transfer of industry, intends to enter the field of mini-
in the production process because the refinery Iranian weapons through the Middle East,” he LNG; therefore, the assessment of the capacity
never stopped working,” Qassem added. added. of capable companies in this field has been put
Mohammad al-Fateeh, an economic and Moayad al-Bunni, a political and economic on the agenda.
political analyst in Middle East affairs, told analyst at the COAR Global Research Center, Now, the importance of obtaining LNG
Enab Baladi that the Syrian oil and energy file agreed with al-Fateeh, that the oil shipments technology has increased due to the position
is one of the most “complex” issues, and what that arrived recently from Iran will not lead to of this technology in the field of global gas
happens in a month, in terms of supplies or any qualitative improvement in the provision trade, and in the field of mini-LNG, domestic
consumption, cannot be relied upon. of fuels in the markets, and any breakthrough applications are also considered, so that in the
Last September witnessed the transfer of will be temporary, and its impact on reducing hot seasons of the year when household needs
a relatively large amount of Iranian crude the price of the substance in the market will are less, industries using this technology and
oil, there have been several months in recent be “limited,” he told Enab Baladi. store the gas to use it in the cold season.
years in which Iranian imports have stopped ENAB BALADI SHANA
completely, and there have been leaks about

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