Strategic plan for the National Petrochemical Industries Company in 1996 and for the next 25 years (upto year 2021) was compiled, and in pace with the policies regarding export development of oil products consisting 30 development projects, preliminaries for their execution took place. The first phase of The strategic plan named "2nd Petrochemical Industries Development Plan" considered, and after technical & economical studied in 1977, the 4- year Development Plan consisting twelve projects provided. Considering available possibilities and changing some of the proposed activities in the 4- year plan, management and supervision of the projects handed over to the Petrochemical Industries Development Management Co., consisting 9 productive and supportive projects.
As mentioned above, management, coordination, supervision and control of the projects was turned over to this company, but for expedition of activities and division of responsibilities, execution of mentioned projects transferred to different common joint- stock companies, the detailed specification of which will be given later.
Table No. 1 indicates the topics, products, and product capacities of the 4- year plan projects for Petrochemical Industries Development.

 
No. Project  
Product Capacity/1000 tons per year
1 Methanol Methanol 660
2 Paraxylene Paraxylene 180
3 1st MTBE MTBE 500
4 3rd Aromatic Paraxylene 428
Benzene 179
Liquid Gas 38
Raffinate 198
Light Cut 350
Heavy Cut 499
Heavy Aromatic 22
5 Olefin 6 & 7 Ethylene 520
HDPE 140
LLDPE 208
EO/EG 268
Poly-propylene 160
BD-EXT 53
Butane-1 20
6 1st PTA/PET PET Bottle 60
PET Fiber 352
PTA 350
7 Engineering Polymers Poly Carbonate 25
Solid Epoxy Resin 4
Liquid Epoxy Resin 6
8 1st LAB LAB 50
9 2nd PET/PTA PET Fiber 235
PET Bottle 180
PTA 350
10 3rd Methanol Methanol 1000000
  Total   6695