The Polish company Lotos acquired from Iran, 2 million barrels of oil in one transaction. As reported the Agency “Prime”, said Director for international Affairs of National Iranian oil company NIOC Mohsen, Kamsari.
Oil, according to him, was loaded on a tanker at the terminal on Kharg island. Extra large oil tanker The Atlantas left the main Iranian oil terminal on June 27 and went to the Polish port of Gdansk.
It shows that Iran continues to win market after the lifting of sanctions by Western countries, reads a release from NIOC.
Poland traditionally buys Russian Urals crude oil, its share in the Polish import of oil is over 90%. However, in November last year, the largest oil company in Poland, PKN Orlen received a shipment of oil from Saudi Arabia to 100 thousand tons at the port of Gdansk.
“We plan to purchase more cargoes of oil from Saudi Arabia in the coming months”, – said the representative of PKN Orlen in April, refusing, proved in detail to comment on talks with Saudi Arabia on signing long-term contract for the supply of oil.
In addition, the Agency Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that the Spanish oil company Repsol for the first time since 2012, when against Iran were imposed Western sanctions, bought Iranian oil . According to the Agency, the company has adopted a tanker Delta Ios at the refinery in Cartagena in Spain.
The tanker also had loaded oil at Kharg island in Iran. Repsol regularly purchased Iranian oil before the sanctions against Iran. After the cancellation of the basic package of sanctions, which happened in January this year, Iran had announced plans to regain its market share and the level of oil production to the level prior to the imposition of sanctions – about 4 million barrels per day.
According to the Ministry of petroleum of Iran, by the end of March oil exports in the country reached 2 million barrels per day, and in the second half of 2016, he sostat about 3.6 million barrels.
