Oil Industry Registered Sites Reach 109

Sunday, July 9, 2017Oil Industry Registered Sites Reach 109

Technical-vocational school, luxury houses, power plant No.1 and old gas station in Abadan city and Bibiyan distillation plant in Masjed Soleyman, all of them situated in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, have been registered as historical sites by the Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization.

These sites which their establishment dates back to the founder of Pahlavi dynasty era, from 1925 to 1941, have been considered for changing into petroleum museums.

The Abadan Gas Station has been already launched as a petroleum museum on the venue of Iran’s first gas station in  January 2017 and is open to the public since then. Similarly, Abadan technical-vocational school is in its final stage of preparation, envisaged to be launched in the near future.  

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Power plant No.1 as one of the five locations for changing into a petroleum museum in Abadan is now out of service while the luxury houses in the Brim District in the city, which once was used by NIOC managers and the government officials before the Islamic Revolution in 1979 as residency are the two other places planned for establishing petroleum museums.

Bibiyan refinery as part of oil installations in Masjed Soleyman was built in 1932 and continued operations until 1973.

 Bibiyan oil installations also include two sulfur production units of which the first one was built in 1938 by German engineers as the first such a plant in the Middle East and came online two years later. The other one was bought from the U.S, was assembled by British engineers in 1942 and came online in 1944.

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The produced sulfur in Bibiyan sulfur plant was conveyed by conveyors to the National Iranian Oil Company’s (NIOC) rail station near Tombi power plant for transfer to Dor-khazineh by train and then to Abadan port and other destinations by boat.

Bibiyan distillation plant in Masjed Soleyman was built in 1937 and stopped operation in 1977 even though its installations have remained intact.

The Cultural Heritage And Tourism Organization has already registered 103 oil industry sites as historical works and from now on, any actions that lead to the destruction or alteration of their identity will be subject to penalties according to the law.