{"id":16206,"date":"2025-11-29T12:07:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=16206"},"modified":"2025-11-29T12:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T12:07:51","slug":"irans-oil-minister-hints-at-possible-revival-of-supreme-energy-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/16206\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Oil Minister Hints at Possible Revival of Supreme Energy Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\"><p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad stated that the formation of a \u201cSupreme Energy Council\u201d is under consideration to improve coordination among various energy sectors in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters, Paknejad said the establishment of such a council \u201cis likely in the future\u201d as a strategic step toward integrated and unified management of Iran\u2019s energy policy.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks came during a press briefing on the newly created Strategic Energy Optimization and Management Organization, headed by recently appointed Vice President Esmaeil Saqab Isfahani.<\/p>\n<p>Paknejad clarified that while the existing Fuel Conservation Organization (currently under the Oil Ministry) will operate in coordination with and effectively beneath the new entity, the Oil Ministry itself will not be subordinated to it. He emphasized that the ministry\u2019s core responsibilities \u2014 crude oil and natural gas production, processing, distribution, sales, and exports \u2014 extend far beyond energy optimization.<\/p>\n<p>The potential revival of a Supreme Energy Council has long been discussed in Iranian policy circles as a mechanism to align the activities of the Oil Ministry, Power Ministry, Renewable Energy Organization, and other stakeholders under a single high-level decision-making body.<\/p>\n<p>No specific timeline for the council\u2019s establishment was provided.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2025-11-29T12:07:51+00:00\"> 29 November 2025<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad stated that the formation of a \u201cSupreme Energy Council\u201d is under consideration to improve coordination among various energy sectors in the country.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,17,44,18,22,36,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-16206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-economy","category-fuel","category-headline","category-iran","category-lastnews","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16206"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=16206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}