According to Tasnim News Agency, the CEO of the National Oil Company said: 2.5 billion barrels of crude oil equivalent represented the total number of newly discovered reserves in the 13th government, about 8 reservoirs of oil and gas were our new discoveries, and we had a very important discovery recently, which was announced soon by the Ministry of Oil.

He added: In the past, we produced oil but did not sell it, but today we produce and sell it, and last year we had $35 billion in oil export revenue.