Marjan,
Kaveh and phase III of Pardis petrochemical projects will become operational
before the current calendar year’s end, Managing Director of the National Petrochemical
Company (NPC) Marziyeh Shahdaei said.
She said
the projects will add 5.5 million metric tons per year to the country’s annual petrochemical
production capacity.
Marjan Petrochemical
Plant alone will add 1.6 mt/y to the country’s annual production capacity, Shahdaei,
who is also deputy petroleum minister in petrochemical affairs, added.
Moreover,
Kaveh Plant, the world’s biggest methanol production facility, is being
developed for processing 2.3 mt/y of the item.
Besides
these three projects there are other plants that will come online before the
yearend like phase II of West Ethylene Pipeline and parts of Damavand Petrochemical
Utility Plant, she noted.
Iran supplied
50 million tons of petrochemicals last year of which over 20 million tons was
exported fetching the country nearly $10b in revenues.
In the
past 5 months, the country has yielded over 22 million tons of products.