Behran Oil Company ( fa, شرکت نفت بهران, ''Shirkat-e Nuft-e Behran'') is an
oil refining
An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into useful products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquefie ...
company with headquarters in
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...
. Its products are exported to more than 40 countries.
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History and development
''Behran Oil Company'' was founded in 1963 as a private joint venture with Exxon Mobil Company in Iran. The first products of the company were just packing and blending engine oils. The company became independent after the Islamic Revolution
The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dyna ...
. Gradually it was expanded and now the production rate reaches 250,000 tons of base oil for each year, as well as 350,000 tons per year of finished products. In total, the capacity of the company for the production of finished products is more than 500,000 tons per year, meanwhile the quality of the products have been upgraded according to the appropriate advanced international standards and guidelines.
It has a 40-43% share of the motor oil market and a 30% share of the industrial lubricant market in Iran. The company also exports about $40 million in finished lubricants, rubber process oils and paraffin waxes to more than 30 countries.
Behran Oil Company has been progressively increased its commitment in the field of lubricant production technology through considerable investment in research and development. The development of Behran activities resulted in the establishment of a new plant for the production of special lubricants and antifreezes.[
Behran Oil in numbers
Number of employees: 500
Number of employees in outsourcing facilities: 500
Annual sales: $500million
Production capacity of base oil (Group I): 250,000 tons / year
Production capacity of finished products (engine oils and industrial oils) :400,000 tons / year
Market share in engine oils : 45%
Market share in industrial oils: 30%
Annual exports : $40million
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Products
The main products of the company are Automotive lubricating oil
A lubricant (sometimes shortened to lube) is a substance that helps to reduce friction between surfaces in mutual contact, which ultimately reduces the heat generated when the surfaces move. It may also have the function of transmitting forces, t ...
s, Industrial lubricant
A lubricant (sometimes shortened to lube) is a substance that helps to reduce friction between surfaces in mutual contact, which ultimately reduces the heat generated when the surfaces move. It may also have the function of transmitting forces, t ...
s, Petroleum waxes, Antifreeze
An antifreeze is an additive which lowers the freezing point of a water-based liquid. An antifreeze mixture is used to achieve freezing-point depression for cold environments. Common antifreezes also increase the boiling point of the liquid, all ...
– Antiboil and Anticorrosion, Rubber process oils, Fuel additive
Petrol additives increase petrol's octane rating or act as corrosion inhibitors or lubricants, thus allowing the use of higher compression ratios for greater efficiency and power. Types of additives include metal deactivators, corrosion inhib ...
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Certifications
Behran Oil Company has qualified for ISO 9001
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from SGS SGS may refer to:
Acronym usage
* ISO 639-3 code for the Samogitian dialect
* ISO 3166 trigram for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
* FAA location identifier for South St. Paul Municipal Airport
Companies and organizations
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, as well as many other health, safety, and environment certificates including ISO 14001
ISO 14000 is a family of standards related to environmental management that exists to help organizations (a) minimize how their operations (processes, etc.) negatively affect the environment (i.e. cause adverse changes to air, water, or land); (b ...
and OHSAS 18001
OHSAS 18001, Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series, was an international standard for occupational health and safety management systems that was subsequently adopted as a British Standard. Compliance with it enabled organizations to dem ...
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See also
*Industry of Iran
According to a report by ''The Economist'', Iran has been ranked 39th for producing $23 billion of industrial products in 2008. From 2008 to 2009 Iran has leaped to 28th place from 69th place in annual industrial production growth rate.
T ...
*Privatization in Iran
According to the Fourth Economic history of Iran#Review of Iran's successive economic plans (1991–2010), Five-Year Economic Development Plan (2005–2010), the Privatization Organization of Iran affiliated with the Ministry of Economic Affairs a ...
*List of Iranian companies
This is a list of notable companies based in Iran. For listing criteria, see methodology section.
Current companies
*holding company
Methodology
Under a plan calledTop Iranian Companies the 100 top publicly traded Iranian corporations are chos ...
*National Iranian Oil Company
The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC; fa, شرکت ملّی نفت ایران, Sherkat-e Melli-ye Naft-e Īrān) is a government-owned national oil and natural gas producer and distributor under the direction of the Ministry of Petroleum of Ir ...
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