Speaking to NIPNA, Ramezan Owladi said the
company’s envisaged production plan will be materialized once all phases of the
supergiant South Pars Gas Field become operational by 2019.
He said once the envisaged output is realized,
the company will be operating at 100 percent of its nameplate capacity.
By 2020, Kavian Petrochemical Plant, producing
2.2 mt/y of output, will be supplying surplus ethylene which will be exploited
for feeding petrochemical plants in Mahshahr Petrochemical Zone in the
southwestern province of Khuzestan.
Last calendar year, which ended on March 20, the
facility supplied 1.2 million tons of ethylene, he said adding, the company was
expected to operate at 80 percent of its rated capacity this calendar year by
supplying 1.6 mt/y of ethylene.
The ethylene output of the facility is injected
into the West Ethylene Pipeline to feed dozens of petrochemical plants on its
way through the western provinces of the country.
Mr. Owladi further added that by 2020, the plant
would kick off projects aimed at boosting its production capacity by 10 to 15
percent annually.
The CEO of Kavian Petrochemical Company said:
"With the increase of ethylene production and the excess of this feedstock,
we can provide ethylene to the petrochemicals of Bakhtar Holding, Ilam, Ghadir
and Arvand, as well as the plants operating at Mahshahr Petrochemical Zone and
Amir Kabir Petrochemical Plant.”