According to IRNA, Gholamreza Shariati on Monday evening,
in a gathering of reporters, and on the sidelines of installation of heavy-duty
reactor equipment at Masjed Soleiman Petrochemical Complex, said: "Masjed
Soleiman Petrochemical Project is a major economic progress [for the country] and
currently most of its required equipment and machinery has been or is being imported
to the country."
He said based on the project's timetable, "this
massive project will be operational by June 2019. In the future, other major
industrial projects whose development has began around a year and a half ago
will come on-stream in Khuzestan."
Bidboland II Gas Refinery, Masje Soleiman Petrochemical
Plant and Marty Jahan Ara Steel Mill are some of the major projects which are being
completed in the southwestern oil-rich province of Khuzestan.