Tehran (IP) - The CEO of Pars Special Economic Energy Zone Organization (PSEEZ) announced a 50% increase in the export of this region compared to the previous year.

Iran PressIran News: According to PSEEZ, a joint meeting of oil and petrochemical industry executives of the Pars Special Region with Ayatollah Safai Bushehri, a representative of the religious jurist in Bushehr province, was held on Monday in PSEEZ.

In this meeting, the representative of the Leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution and Friday Prayer Leader of Bushehr considered energy production as the driving force of economic production and said: "The ruling world seeks to keep the Islamic Iran as its dependent in the field of nuclear and fossil energy supply, but with the help of your oil industry experts, we will become knowledge-based and independent in these industries."

He continued: "We must distance ourselves from crude sales in this industry by producing knowledge-based products in the field of oil and gas industries, and shape the civilization of Islamic Iran by taking advantage of the great God-given capacity of the country."

Sakhawat Asadi, the CEO of PSEEZ, also reported a 50% increase in the export of the region in the 9 months of this calendar year (which began on March 21, 2022), compared to the same period of the year before, and said: “In the discussion of exports in the 9 months of this year, more than 18 million tons of exports from this region have earned the country nearly $10 billion in revenue.”

He also announced a decrease of $600 million in imports from the South Pars region, which is 87,000 tons less than that in the same period last year.

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