Shana reported on 8 October 2026 that the Shahid Hashemi-Nejad gas refinery received and processed 7.095 billion cubic metres during the first six months of Iranian year 1405. The company’s managing director said the comparable period a year earlier had recorded 6.017 billion cubic metres. The source describes the difference as an 18% increase. This is a six-month receipt and processing volume at one facility, not a daily production rate or a measure of Iran’s total gas output.

The report attributes the result to a package of technical and operating measures. It cites shorter major-maintenance periods, concentrated repairs of operating units and process optimisation. The managing director said certain major repairs were completed in 25 days and a full preventive shutdown in four days. Shana does not provide a breakdown that would assign part of the volume increase to each measure. The article therefore presents these as explanations offered by the company’s management, rather than as an independently measured causal decomposition.

The comparison is between the same six months in consecutive years. The company director described the volume as the highest received during a comparable six-month period in ten years. This is not an annual record and does not compare the refinery with every gas plant in Iran. The source does not provide the facility’s nameplate capacity, utilisation rate, gas composition or monthly volumes from which the within-period trend could be reconstructed. The indicator should therefore be read within the specific scope reported by the company.

The company said the work was also intended to prepare for maintaining domestic gas supply during the colder months. That statement describes an operating purpose; the report gives no quantified winter-demand forecast and makes no guarantee against supply restrictions. The article combines a retrospective processing figure with the management’s explanation of maintenance work and a seasonal readiness objective. Its data block preserves the two reported volumes and the stated percentage while making clear that the measure is receipt and processing at Hashemi-Nejad, not reserves, sales or national production.