Addressing a
press conference on Monday, Taghi Sanei, the plant’s CEO, said that 60% of his company’s
output was exported and the remaining was sold on the stock market or consumed
as feedstock by other petrochemical plants.
He said the company
was processing a licensing round for a heavy cut sweetening project for
production of quality gasoil whose fate would be determined in two months and
construction of the project would begin in the early days of the next calendar
year.
The official
further added that the plant was connected with all the refineries of the South
Pars gas field in order to ensure its feedstock supply and currently had no
trouble for the supply of its feedstock.
Noori Petrochemical
Plant consumes an average of 100,000 barrels of feedstock on a daily basis, he
added, saying that the company was currently operating at 91% of its nameplate capacity
but its output was 101% of the planned output.
Sanei further
added that other development projects were under way in the facility which
would increase its paraxylene output by 20% and its benzene output by 10%.