Managing
director of the plant Mojtaba Taheri told NIPNA that his company has started talks
with the French company on launching a new heavy cut sweetening unit in the
facility.
He
said the unit is being developed for production of 2 million tons of petrochemicals
annually.
Taheri
said Axens enjoys the technical savvy for developing the unit.
Once
the talks are over, an EPC deal with be signed between the two companies and
financing of the project will be put to tender, he added.
Noori
Petrochemical Plant is one of the world's biggest aromatic producers with 5.4
million tons of annual production capacity.
The
plant is fed by the gas refineries of the supergiant South Pars Gas Field.
It
also consumers 270,000 tons of benzene pyrolysis from Jam Petrochemical Plant.