Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced that his country has started exporting its oil through the Jask port on the Sea of Oman, adding that this enables it to bypass the need for the Gulf.
Rouhani described this project - which cost two billion dollars, and took about two years to complete - as "historic" and important to Iran, and that it is an important message to those he described as its enemies who imposed sanctions on its oil industry.
The Iranian president added in a televised speech, "We have always exported our oil through the Gulf, and today the process of transporting our crude oil has begun through pipelines from the Korah region to the Jask port, over a distance of one thousand kilometers."
The new station is connected to a pipeline with a length of about 1,000 km, extending from Korah in the Bushehr province (southwest), to the port located in the province of Hormuzgan (southeast), which will allow tankers to shorten the days of their journeys, and avoid the waters of the Gulf and the strategic Strait of Hormuz, which has repeatedly formed a theater The tension with the United States, through which about a fifth of global oil exports, especially those of Saudi Arabia, pass.
The Iranian president - whose term ends at the beginning of next month - highlighted the importance of what was inaugurated today, saying that "a project of this size for oil exports, with the aim of providing a new export terminal in the region, not located in the Gulf but in the Sea of Oman, is a very important plan (...)". .
Rouhani (right) considered the project historic and very important for Iran (French)
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For his part, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said that the export of the first shipment of oil from the Sea of Oman is a historic day in the Iranian oil industry, stressing that the Jask port is capable of storing 10 million barrels of crude oil, and exporting one million barrels per day.
He pointed out that 250 Iranian companies contributed to this project, "which shows Iran's strength in breaking the sanctions imposed on it and its oil sector."
In 2018, Washington re-imposed harsh economic sanctions on Tehran;
Following US President Donald Trump's unilateral withdrawal from the agreement on Iran's nuclear program,
The launch of export work from JASEC comes at a time when Iran is engaged in talks with major powers, with indirect US participation, aimed at reviving the agreement on the nuclear program, by lifting the US sanctions that have been re-imposed on Iran, in exchange for Tehran's return to full respect for its obligations under the terms of the agreement. the agreement.
In a report yesterday, Wednesday, the official Iranian news agency (IRNA) considered that the launch of the export from the port of Jask will help Tehran return to the "oil market", and considered that the project guarantees "energy security" for Iran due to its location "outside the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz."