Tajikistan Ambassador and Head of ECO Visit Abadan Petromusem

Wednesday, March 1, 2017Tajikistan Ambassador and Head of ECO Visit Abadan Petromusem

Tajikistan ambassador to Iran Nematollah Imamzadeh and Mohammad Mehdi Mazaheri Iranian head of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) visited Museum of Abadan Gas Station on Wednesday.

The visit took place as part of a sightseeing tour to Abadan city.

Accompanied by a delegation, Tajikistan ambassador to Iran expressed his happiness of setting up the museum, appreciating Iranian petroleum ministry efforts for preserving the oil industry heritage.

Similarly, Iranian head of ECO, Dr. Mazaheri, noted that establishing such centers would contribute to boosting tourism and cultural development in the country, calling for promoting this kind of activities in the area.

Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), established in 1985 by Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey for the purpose of promoting economic, technical and cultural cooperation. The organization has 10 members now.

Museum of Abadan Gas Station was inaugurated last month in the southwestern city of Abadan as Iran’s first petroleum museum. The museum is located on the venue of a gas station which set up as the first gas station in Iran in 1927 by British Petroleum (BP).

The ministry also plans to open other petroleum museums in four other locations in the city including at the technical-vocational school, Abadan historical jetty, power plant number 1 and luxury houses, according to the director of Petromuseums Akbar Nematollahi.

In the main building of the Museum of Abadan Gas Station, all documents and objects related to the gas station like pumps, scales, jerry cans and other tools and documents are on display.

The museum has also put in display different oil industry equipment in its open-air space including different kinds of old gas dispensers with their date of use, a vehicle symbolically filling its fuel tank, a small room used by gas station attendants, a room which used to house selling kerosene, fuel supply tankers and old riveted tanks, components of gas dispensers, kerosene lamps and stoves, oil related historical documents including newspapers, advertisements, kerosene, gasoline and gasoil coupons, banknotes, stamps and other cultural products.