Every year, significant amounts of exportable sulfur are extracted from the oil and gas resources of our country, and our country is one of the most important producers of sulfur in the world. Iranian sulfur has good quality and high purity. So that in addition to meeting domestic needs, part of it is also exported abroad.

Sulfur in free form and in combination has many uses, but its most use is for the preparation of chemical compounds and intermediate products in the industrial cycle. The most sulfur consumption in recent years has been in agricultural industries and the preparation of phosphate fertilizers, which are usually used directly to lower the pH of agricultural soil and produce sulfuric acid, match making, spraying mushrooms, whiteflies and insecticides.

Sulfur in oil refining, copper separation and uranium refining, preparation of organic and inorganic chemicals, paints, paper and paper pulp, leather making, electroplating, power plants, sugar and sugar industries, preparation of starch, preparation of synthetic fibers, explosives, pharmaceuticals and disinfection, non-metallic materials, food, soap making industry and detergents and cleaning materials, battery making, synthetic rubber, sulfur concretes, various chemicals and also used as a source of welding material (rubber welding).

Sulfur consumed in the world comes from two main sources of mineral sulfur and sulfur extracted from the oil and gas process. The amount of global production of each is as follows:

Mineral sulfur 31%

Sulfur with oil and gas 69%