Speaking to NIPNA, Ali Mohammad
Bossaqzadeh, director of production control at National Petrochemical Company
(NPC), said over 710,000 tons of the item was consumed by the plants operating
along the West Ethylene Pipeline in the first 7 months of the current Iranian
calendar year.
He said the amount is up 32% from the same
period last year.
The official said production of Mahabad
and Kurdistan petrochemical facilities has been acceptable during the period,
adding an increase is expected in the productivity of all the plants operating along the pipeline.
Feeding 12 petrochemical plants in 11
provinces, the West Ethylene Pipeline is planned to deliver 1.3 million tons of
ethylene during the current calendar year, he said.
Construction of the massive feedstock
pipeline began in 2002 with an investment of $8.5 billion.