Official in charge of oil products pipelines and distribution installations in north country stated that designing the project had progressed 60 percent. Hossein Ali Dashtaei added that there were two 14-inch and 16-inch pipelines running from Rey to Tabriz both of which transferred crude oil and its products. "After construction of the new pumping stations, the 16-inch pipeline will be totally allocated to crude oil transfer," he said. The official noted that the 16-inch pipeline was to transfer 110,000 barrels crude oil as feed for Tabriz refinery and the 14-inch pipeline would be special to transferring oil products. Dashtaei noted that the project would cost about 104 billion rials and would come on-stream in 2005. "A tender bid for designing and constructing four 63-kv electricity posts and 110 km electricity transmission network is to be carried out to supply needed power for four new pumping stations at the cost of 75 billion rials," he said. Dashtaei stated that two crude oil reservoirs with respective capacities of 21,000 cu. m. had been constructed near old pumping stations in Eshtehard and Idehlou to balance and control crude oil transfer to Tabriz refinery. "The project cost 9.6 billion rials and has been test launched," he concluded.