{"id":18346,"date":"2026-09-01T07:06:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T07:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=18346"},"modified":"2026-09-01T07:06:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T07:06:01","slug":"iran-moves-to-restore-strategic-oil-terminal-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/18346\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Moves to Restore Strategic Oil-Terminal Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"

RoydadNaft – <\/a><\/span>\u00a0The managing director of the Iranian Oil Terminals Company said the firm has followed a coordinated two-year program to bring idle capacity back into service, protect strategic infrastructure, and strengthen operations. He said the core strategy has been to return existing assets to the operating cycle and create stable conditions for the company\u2019s strategic missions.<\/p>\n

According to Roydad Naft, citing the National Iranian Oil Company, Abbas Asadrooz pointed to the company\u2019s role in the crude-oil transfer, storage, and export chain. Over the past two years, he said, management shifted from scattered, short-term actions toward a coherent plan to revive infrastructure, raise the reliability of operating assets, and improve readiness. That approach secured \u20ac500 million in credit for high-priority maintenance and development projects.<\/p>\n

He said the company\u2019s missions rest on a set of interconnected assets, and the readiness of each part affects the whole operating chain. The first priority was therefore to identify out-of-service capacity and put it back to work.<\/p>\n

Operations are organized around six main asset families: subsea pipelines, storage tanks, jetties and marine structures, vessels, power plants, and water-supply and desalination systems. In the first two-year program, priority went to equipment that had fallen out of service, returning it through repair, reconstruction, and modernization. The same approach was applied across all operating families, slowing further asset deterioration, allowing existing capacity to be used again, and raising operational readiness.<\/p>\n

Kharg: restoring strategic capacity and flexibility<\/p>\n

A major share of the revival program focused on Kharg, where reliable equipment and facilities are essential to the company\u2019s mission. Infrastructure, repair, and operating projects covered transfer and storage facilities, marine equipment, safety systems, and power and water supply.<\/p>\n

Two storage tanks were returned to service after major overhauls and modernization, restoring 2 million barrels of storage capacity and increasing operating flexibility. \u201cIn our view, repairing a piece of equipment is not just fixing a technical fault,\u201d Asadrooz said. \u201cIt means returning capacity to the operating chain and raising the reliability of the company\u2019s missions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fleet return: from idle assets to future renewal<\/p>\n

Another focus was restoring marine capability. Through major repairs, reconstruction, and preparation programs, 18 vessels, barges, and tugboats returned to service, strengthening readiness and operational support. At the same time, a fleet-renewal program was put on the agenda so marine capacity can match future needs. Asadrooz said the marine fleet is a decisive link in the terminal chain, and ready vessels and tugs are essential to sustained readiness.<\/p>\n

Asaluyeh oil terminal: maintenance and reliability<\/p>\n

At the South Pars condensate terminal, the same approach led to the return of SPM buoy No. 2 after a major overhaul and SPM buoy No. 3 after replacement of its rotating swivel joint.<\/p>\n

Asadrooz stressed that no equipment or infrastructure can fulfill its mission without skilled personnel, and that much of the progress over the period came from the knowledge, experience, and round-the-clock work of company staff.<\/p>\n

He said the company must now enter a new phase after bringing idle capacity back: shifting away from traditional contracts toward faster development and modernization, preventive maintenance, higher productivity, technology, and stronger security and infrastructure resilience, financed through public-private partnership schemes in line with Iran\u2019s Seventh Development Plan.<\/p>\n

The past two years showed that investment in revival is necessary, he said, but more important is a system that keeps capacity in service and prevents equipment from falling idle again. \u201cToday we must move beyond \u2018repair to restore\u2019 toward \u2018maintain to sustain,\u2019\u201d he said\u2014an approach in which asset management, failure prevention, long-term planning, and new technologies will have a central place.<\/p>\n

Sustained operations depend on a connected chain<\/p>\n

What was done over the past two years is not merely a list of projects, Asadrooz said, but an effort to strengthen a chain of capacities that together create operational readiness. Behind every successful marine operation and every piece of ready equipment, he said, is a wide network of infrastructure, assets, and people that must be monitored, maintained, and reinforced continuously.<\/p>\n

The path ahead for the Iranian Oil Terminals Company, he said, is to continue this approach\u2014with a focus on durable capacity, higher asset reliability, stronger operating capability, and protection of the infrastructure that underpins the strategic missions of Iran\u2019s oil industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The managing director of the Iranian Oil Terminals Company said the firm has followed a coordinated two-year program to bring idle capacity back into service, protect strategic infrastructure, and strengthen operations. He said the core strategy has been to return existing assets to the operating cycle and create stable conditions for the company\u2019s strategic missions.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18347,"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-18346","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\/18346","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=18346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18348,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18346\/revisions\/18348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18346"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=18346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}