Tehran, YJC. National Iranian Oil Company Director of international affairs said initial negotiations to export oil to Indonesia are over, but the final and definite deal is yet to be reached.
Mohsen
Ghamsari reiterated that there are technical problems to export Iranian oil to Indonesia
and its refineries.
Regarding
the sanctions, Ghamsari said that the deal was not inked yet and that the
amount of export would be in accordance with agreements.
He,
nonetheless, said that there is no obstacle for Indonesia to import Iran’s oil
as it stands among the countries that could do so.
An
Indonesian official had Recently announced the country's readiness to buy oil
from Iran. He noted that this trade was based on Indonesian government’s plan
to improve petroleum import in order to increase oil resources in its
refineries.
The Indonesian
minister of Energy and Mine Resources further had asserted "this is because we
are going to face difficulties in oil production in the near future. We have to
make sure about our resources, thus we have to import petroleum.” He added that
Indonesia does not want to depend on limited number of oil producing countries
and is looking for more providers in the oil market.
Currently Indonesia
has the capacity of refining one million barrels of oil which is something about
2/3 of its need.