Optimized Ethane Consumption Necessary in Future: Official

Optimized Ethane Consumption Necessary in Future: Official
(Friday, July 6, 2018) 19:07

TEHRAN (NIPNA) -- A senior petrochemical official said efficient exploitation of the ethane output of the country would become a necessity in Iran given the fact that it would be supplying 7 million tons of surplus ethane by 2021.

Ali Mohammad Bossaqzadeh, director of projects at the National Petrochemical Company (NPC), told a gathering of senior petrochemical officials on Thursday that projects were under way to consume the surplus ethane output of the country and reduce it to 1 mt which must be exploited efficiently.

 “Fortunately, very good measures have so far been taken to supply feedstock of petrochemical and there are no feedstock shortages for the plants operating in Asaluyeh (southern Iran),” the official said.

 He also stated that the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) had devised plans to enhance supply of feedstock to the petrochemical facilities that run on natural gas, adding NIGC is in close ties with NPC which result is guaranteed feedstock supply to petrochemical plants.

 Bossaqzadeh, who is also a member of the board of directors of NPC, further added that as several projects including Bandar Emam Olefin Unit and Bushehr Petrochemical Plant are scheduled to come on-stream in the near future, the industry would have no trouble for feedstock supply.

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