{"id":17958,"date":"2026-08-08T14:53:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=17958"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:53:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:53:05","slug":"abadan-refinery-steps-up-expansion-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/17958\/","title":{"rendered":"Abadan Refinery steps up expansion drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0The CEO of the National Iranian Oil Products Refining and Distribution Company underscored the strategic role of the Abadan Refinery in ensuring a stable fuel supply and accelerating development projects during a visit to the southern city.<\/p>\n<div class=\"item-body\">\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mohammad-Sadeq Azimifar met with refinery managers and local officials and toured various sections of the Abadan Refinery, where he reviewed production levels, development projects and challenges facing the facility.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Azimifar praised refinery employees for their efforts, particularly during wartime, saying their round-the-clock work under difficult conditions had played an important role in maintaining production and ensuring the country\u2019s fuel supply.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The deputy oil minister for refining and distribution affairs also stressed the need to continue increasing gasoline and diesel production, accelerate development projects and give greater attention to human resources.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fardin Rashidi, CEO of the Abadan Oil Refining Company, highlighted the refinery\u2019s strategic position in Iran\u2019s refining industry and presented a report on current production and development projects.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He said completing development projects, securing steady financing and obtaining the equipment and spare parts needed for ongoing projects were among the refinery\u2019s top priorities.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Rashidi said the development projects would not only increase production capacity but also create employment for more than 7,000 people over the next 24 months.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He expressed hope that with continued access to financing, equipment and spare parts, the projects would be completed and brought on stream as scheduled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CEO of the National Iranian Oil Products Refining and Distribution Company underscored the strategic role of the Abadan Refinery in ensuring a stable fuel supply and accelerating development projects during a visit to the southern city.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,22,36,19,16,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-17958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-iran","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17958","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=17958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17960,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17958\/revisions\/17960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17958"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=17958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}