The 15th International Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Exhibition covered more than 10 task forces including consultant engineer groups, spare parts constructors, technical and commercial service provider companies, oil products producers, processing equipments producers, fuel consumption efficiency companies and research and training sector, general contractors, companies active in information technology fields.
among these companies you could find most of major Iranian bitumen suppliers like Pasargad and Jey refineries.
to me it sounds like iranian bitumen suppliers are losing their int'l markets since the local demand is too much and likely to take over the national bitumen supplement. just like the petrol we have to import though we have large reservoir of crude oil, I can see in future we have to import bitumen to supply our road constructions and other related projects.
the price of Iranian bitumen is still high for the same reason, but the higher quality comparing to other bitumen suppliers is still a reason for constructors to buy Iranian bitumen.
