The Persian Gulf sulfur producing and exporting countries convened in Tehran for a one-day gathering to discuss output, supply, market trends and conditions.
Representatives from Iran's Petrochemical Commercial Co. (PCC), Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait's Petroleum Corporation, Qatar's Petroleum, Bahrain's National Oil Company and Abu Dhabi's National Oil Company (ADNOC) attended the event which was organized by the NPC subsidiary, PCC on 17 March 01.
They agreed on further cooperation and due coordination and took decisions to defend sulfur prices during the next three months.
OPC receives ISO 14001 certificate
Orumieh Petrochemical Co., one of the nine NPC production subsidiaries, obtained ISO 14001 certificate which guarantees environmental protection.
Esfahan, Arak, Tabriz and Khorasan petrochemical Complexes had earlier obtained the certificate. NPC's complexes are implementing various projects to keep up with the environmental standards and codes defined by the Iran's Environment Protection Department.
NPC to study DSS
NPC and an international research organization agreed to launch a preliminary study of the needs assessment to implement application of Decision Support System (DSS) at NPC.
The study will investigate the major decision making processes and the major strategic problem areas of interest to NPC and select a key problem area for a DSS pilot project as a prototype to show explicitly the application of DSS at NPC. The typical problem areas of interest to NPC will include, but will not be limited to the following:
Project control, management of new petrochemical plants, expansion projects of the current plants, selection of new project plans , international and domestic market analysis of petrochemical products, master production planning in corporate level, human resource planning and budgeting as well as financial managerial and control.
The study and the pilot project aim at the following:
Helping NPC on some class of strategic decisions, evaluating accurately the results of previous decisions, incorporating lessons learnt from previous experience on future decisions, having proper drill-down and slice and dice functionality with good graphing and charting functionalities, making use of more detailed information in future as they become available when the operational applications get deployed, using industry standard database to enable the future interoperatablity of the systems and sharing of data between systems.
