Speaking to NIPNA, Iranian petrochemical plants
supplied 27.5 million tons of products over the course of the first half of the
current calendar year, the National Petrochemical Company (NPC)’s Director Of
Production Control at the company Ghodratollah Farajpour said.
The official said the output was achieved despite
the fact that many of the complexes were undergoing major repairs during the
period which ended on September 22.
Among the plants that underwent overhauls during
the peiord were Maroon, Shiraz Petrochemical Plant’s third methanol and urea
unit, Fanavaran Methanol Production Unit, Khark Petrochemical Plant, and Zagros
Plant’s second methanol unit along with Aryasassol and Pars Petrochemical
Plant, he said.
"Despite the extensive repairs in the first half of this year, the
figures are promising," Farjepour said. "So far, we have managed to
cover nearly 80 percent of the nominal production capacity, which is a good
figure.”
Referring to the fact that production of about
27.5 million tons in the first half of this year showed a 2-percent growth
year-on-year, he said considering that in the second half of the year there
will be fewer major overhauls, the output was expected to rise in the period.