European Heavyweights Eye Joining Iran Petchem Sector

European Heavyweights Eye Joining Iran Petchem Sector
(Saturday, August 5, 2017) 15:36

TEHRAN (NINPA) -- A senior official with Iran’s National Petrochemical Company (NPC) says energy majors from Europe have signaled their readiness to join Iran’s petrochemical sector by producing petrochemicals from wasted gasses.

Speaking to NIPNA, Ali Mohammad Bossaqzadeh, director of production control at NPC, said France’s Air Liquide, Germany’s Lurgi GmbH and Denmark’s Haldor Topsoe have voiced their readiness to collection excess gasses like CO2 and hydrogen in Iran and turn them into urea and ammonia in Iran’s energy hub, Assalouyeh.

The zone abounds with gasses that need to be gathered and turned into value-added items, the official said.

He further said there are a number of petrochemical facilities in the region that produce CO2 which can be gathered, too.

Bossaqzadeh argued that gathering such items can be economically advantages while saving the environment.

Given the activities of many refineries and petrochemical facilities in Assalouyeh, abundant CO2, hydrogen and nitrogen gasses are available which can be used for production of items.

The official further added that 7,200 ton/d of ammonia and 9,400 t/d of urea can by produced by gathering the gasses only in Assalouyeh. 

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