During visit
to the facility, Behzad Mohammadi said the mega project was being completed at
an acceptable pace, adding the refinery would come on-stream by 2020.
He said the project
was one of the key projects in Iran’s oil and gas industry which would be fed
by four NGL plants which made it different from South Pars refineries which are
fed by South Pars gas field.
The refinery
is being developed for processing 2 billion cubic feed of natural gas per day.
Once Gachsaran
project, in southwestern Iran, comes online, Bidboland will send 1.5 million
tons of ethane to the facility, but until then, the ethane will be used as
feedstock by the petrochemical plants operating in Mahshahr Petrochemical Zone,
also in southwestern Iran.