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Iran to Set Up New Petrochemical Units
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran plans to boost the volume of its petrochemical products by building three new production units in the near future, an Iranian oil official announced.
Hamidreza Seyed Jafari, the corporate planning director of the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC), said that the new plants will be launched at the refineries of Imam Khomeini, Shazand, and Isfahan.
Seyyed Jafari added that after launching the new plants the refineries are due to produce propylene as a valuable petrochemical product, instead of heating oil.
Late in July, Director of the National Iranian Petrochemical Company (NIPC) Abdolhossein Bayat stressed that Iran plans to boost the volume of its petrochemical products by building dozens of production units across the country.
Bayat said at the time that Iran's annual production of various petrochemical products will hit 60 million tons from the current figure of 42 million tons by the end of the current Iranian calendar year, which ends on March 19, 2012.
Iran, the world's fifth largest oil producer, exported around 14mln tons of petrochemical products worth more than $12bln in 2010.
The country inaugurated a number of giant petrochemical projects in Khuzestan province in Southwestern Iran in February in the presence of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
One of the projects was Amir Kabir Light Petrochemical Polyethylene worth $310 million with a production capacity of 300,000 tons a year.
The project was completed at a time when foreign companies such as Siemens of Germany stopped cooperation in the project under the pretext of the sanctions imposed on Iran by the US and EU.
The other petrochemical units included the light polyethylene of Amir Kabir Complex, part of phase 2 of Fajr Complex and the hard polystyrene unit of Tabriz Complex.
Hamidreza Seyed Jafari, the corporate planning director of the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC), said that the new plants will be launched at the refineries of Imam Khomeini, Shazand, and Isfahan.
Seyyed Jafari added that after launching the new plants the refineries are due to produce propylene as a valuable petrochemical product, instead of heating oil.
Late in July, Director of the National Iranian Petrochemical Company (NIPC) Abdolhossein Bayat stressed that Iran plans to boost the volume of its petrochemical products by building dozens of production units across the country.
Bayat said at the time that Iran's annual production of various petrochemical products will hit 60 million tons from the current figure of 42 million tons by the end of the current Iranian calendar year, which ends on March 19, 2012.
Iran, the world's fifth largest oil producer, exported around 14mln tons of petrochemical products worth more than $12bln in 2010.
The country inaugurated a number of giant petrochemical projects in Khuzestan province in Southwestern Iran in February in the presence of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
One of the projects was Amir Kabir Light Petrochemical Polyethylene worth $310 million with a production capacity of 300,000 tons a year.
The project was completed at a time when foreign companies such as Siemens of Germany stopped cooperation in the project under the pretext of the sanctions imposed on Iran by the US and EU.
The other petrochemical units included the light polyethylene of Amir Kabir Complex, part of phase 2 of Fajr Complex and the hard polystyrene unit of Tabriz Complex.
