Speaking to IRNA English on Saturday, Alireza Jafari Borujeni said the need for new technologies and equipment has been a main cause of PGSOC's efforts to push forward the boundaries of knowledge.
Jafari Borujeni said that a catalyst which was once considered a black box of the petroleum industry and was solely produced by foreign companies is now manufactured inside Iran.
He also hailed the progress achieved in the electricity and electronics fields of the Iranian oil and gas industry.
The CEO was speaking on the sidelines of Iran Oil Show, a major energy event that wrapped up on May 20 in Tehran. He said that the PGSOC had held talks with several Iranian manufactures of centrifugal compressors on the sidelined of Iran Oil Show.
That comes as the company had earlier placed orders for with European companies for supply of the centrifugal compressors.
In line with promoting a sense of self-confidence and to comply with the slogan of "We Can", some 4,500 elite industrial figures toured PGSOC facilities last year to become familiar with the company's technological needs as well as with its achievements, Jafari added.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Jafari Borujeni stressed that cooperation between PGSOC and international companies is still underway despite US sanctions.
He noted that the problem of transporting liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) through sea from Iran has been solved and the product is now being exported from the country both through sea tankers and on trucks.
Jafari said the PGSOC has complied with directives of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei regarding knowledge-based companies and the need to recruit the youth across the industry.
He said that the company has sought to award contracts to the Iranian knowledge-based companies in a bid to prevent possible cyber-attacks.
In response to a question about cooperation with China and Russia, he said that PGSOC has cooperation with China on supply of energy transformers, rotary evaporators, compressors, and pumping equipment.
He said a major hurdle that has blocked efforts to establish extensive cooperation with Russian companies is that they do not have offices in Iran.
The PGSOC produces gasoline, diesel, LPG, hydrogen, sulfur and jet fuel. The facility was launched in 2006 in an area located some 25 kilometers off the city of Bandar Abbas.
In April 2017, a first phase of the refinery was inaugurated with a first shipment of gasoline delivered for distribution in June 2017. That comes as the second phase of the refinery became operational in June 2018.
Developed in three phases, the Persian Gulf Star Refinery, has played a major in Iran's self-sufficiency in production of gasoline. It has also helped the country export gasoline and other high-value products to other countries.
Each of the three phases of the Iranian refinery has a capacity to produce 12 million liters per day (l/d) of Euro-IV grade gasoline, 4.5 million l/d of Euro-IV diesel, 1 million l/d of kerosene, and 300,000 l/d of LPG.
The refinery is currently responsible for 55% of Iran’s motor fuel demand, making it one of the largest in the West Asia region.
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