Iran budgets for lower oil exports in 2013/14

摘要

Tehran—Iran, which has seen its oil exports slump as a result of international sanctions, exported an average 1.4 million b/d in the period March 2012-January 2013 and is budgeting for oil sales of 1.3 million b/d in the next Islamic year that starts March 21. “Average oil exports have been 1.4 million b/d...in the first 10 months of the current Iranian year. And for next year, cautiously, this figure has been foreseen at 1.3 million b/d,” Rahim Mambini, the official in charge of the budget in the government’s planning and strategic supervision department, was quoted as saying by the ILNA labor news agency. The first 10 months of the year refer to the period from March 20, 2012, to January 19, 2013.