MOSCOW (MRC) -- Iran’s Kordestan Petrochemical Plant will produce 300,000 tpa of light polyethylene (PE) once it comes on stream, said a senior official in a report, as per TradeArabia.
The plant’s physical progress is currently at 98% and it is expected be to completed in the next two months, Fereidoun Khaledzadeh, managing director, Kordestan Petrochemical Complex, was quoted as saying in an Iran Daily News report, citing Shana.
The plant is one of the numerous petrochemical plants constructed along West Ethylene Pipeline, added the report.
We remind that, as MRC wrote earlier, The CEO of France's Total, Europe’s third-largest oil company, said in April 2016 that the company's priority on getting back into Iran's energy sector was gas and petrochemicals.
Currently number of active Iranian Petrochemical complexes are 53, with total production capacity of 59 million metric ton, producing range of polymers, chemicals, aromatics & liquid gas, located mainly at Iranian south region, next to Persian Gulf, called Assaluyeh and Mahshahr Special Economic Zones.
At the moment, there are 67 developments projects in the country which are under construction, adding 61 million metric ton on total production and estimated to fully run till 2018.
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