NPC picks contractors for the world's largest ethylene plant

NPC selected Technip of France and Iran's Nargan as engineering and procurement (EP) contractors for the mega-ethylene cracker of its 10th olefin facility.
The 1.32m tonne/year plant will be built at Assaluyeh on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf. The plant, the core unit of the NPC's olefin No. 10, will be the world's largest ethylene steam cracker and the only large-capacity steam cracker to use both gas and liquid feedstocks to produce ethylene and propylene. It is designed to produce 305 000 tonne/year of propylene.
Under the contract, Technip will provide its ethylene technology and proprietary furnaces, carry out basic engineering, supply equipment and materials, and supervise construction and commissioning while Nargan, will provide the detailed engineering and locally manufactured equipment. Delivery of equipment is scheduled for 29 months time.
The project will be financed through a multi-source financing scheme. The project is being implemented and will be run by the NPC subsidiary Jam Petrochemical Company.
This is the second ethylene cracker that NPC has awarded to Technip and Nargan. In September 2000, it gave a lumpsum contract for a 1m tonne/year ethylene cracker of its olefin No. 9 project to Technip and Nargan that will be built in the same area.
 

NPC awards acetic acid project to LG and OIEC

NPC awarded the contract for its acetic acid project in the Bandar Imam region, southwest Iran to LG of South Korea and Iran's Oil Industries Engineering Company (OIEC). The contract covers detailed engineering, equipment supply and technical assistance.
Basic engineering work has already been completed by Germany's Salzgitter using technology from the Ukrainian company Khimtechnologia. It is due onstream in 2002. Listed under phases 1 and 2 of its Strategic Program, the 150 000 tonne/year acetic acid plant will be located downstream of the NPC's No. 3 methanol project. It is one of the NPC's grass roots development projects. Together with methanol No. 3 and vinyl acetate projects, it will be constructed in a 25-hectare area within the Petrochemical Special Economic Zone (PETZONE) on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf.
The facility will provide feed for the NPC's purified terephthalic acid (PTA) 1 and 2 projects. It will consume methanol and carbon monoxide as its feedstock. The adjacent methanol No. 3 and carbon monoxide (CO) facilities will provide feed for the plant. Of the project's total production, 105 000 tonne/year will be exported.
Fanavaran Petrochemical Co., an NPC subsidiary is responsible for implementing and operating the project.

Snamprogetti/Sazeh to build CO unit for NPC

NPC has awarded the contract to build a 140 000 tonne/year carbon monoxide (CO) plant to Snamprogetti and Iran's Sazeh Consultants.
The UK branch of Italian contractor Snamprogetti will provide the technology license, basic engineering, equipment and technical assistance. Sazeh, Snamprogetti's Iranian partner in the project, will carry out the detailed engineering and supply locally manufactured equipment.
The CO plant will be located at the Petrochemical Special Economic Zone (PETZONE) on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf and will supply the NPC's acetic acid project at the site. The equipment and materials for the CO facility will be supplied within 22 months time. The NPC subsidiary, Fanavaran Petrochemical Co is implementing the CO project.

Urea granulation project kick-off meeting

The kick-off meeting for the urea granulation project of Razi Petrochemical Co. (RPC) was held in Tehran. Representatives from Italy's Snamprogetti, Sazeh of Iran and the NPC subsidiary Petrochemical Industries Development Management Co. (PIDMCO) attended the meeting. The project's engineering work will start immediately after the contract becomes effective.
Snamprogetti and Sazeh won the RPC's urea granulation contact in late 2000. The contract covers basic and detailed engineering, construction as well as supply of technology and equipment, pre-commissioning, start-up and performance test. The project will use Norway's Norsk Hydro technology and will take 18 month to complete. It has a capacity of 1 800 tonne/day (594 000tonne/year).

NPC to build a new ammonia plant in RPC

NPC plans to build a new ammonia plant in its Razi Petrochemical Co. (RPC). RPC has already two ammonia plants each with a capacity of 330 000 tonne/year. RPC's third ammonia plant will have a capacity of 2000 tonne/day. The NPC subsidiary, Petrochemical Industries Development Management Co. (PIDMCO) has prepared the bid documents and expects to float them to contractors in the near future for the project's technology as well as engineering and procurement contract.

NPC to build an isocyanates plant

NPC will build an isocyanates plant in its Petrochemical Special Economic Zone (PETZONE) southwest of Iran on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf. The plant will produce 40 000 tonne/year of toluene-di-isocyanates and 40 000 tonne/year of methylen-di-phenyl-di-isocyanates. The nearby Bandar Imam Petrochemical Co. (BIPC) and Razi Petrochemical Co. (RPC) will supply the plant's required feedstock.
The NPC subsidiary, Khuzestan Petrochemical Co. will implement and operate the facility.

NPC wraps up first round of negotiations for Assaluyeh ammonia/urea project

NPC's subsidiary, PIDMCO concluded first round of technical and contractual negotiations with bidders for an ammonia/urea facility in Assaluyeh on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf in the vicinity of the off-shore South Pars gas field. The complex will produce 2050 tonne/day (676 500 tonne/year) of ammonia and 3250 tonne/day (1.07m tonne/year) of urea. NPC will select the contractor in the near future after receiving the bidders' revised proposals.

NPC short-lists bidders for PA/DOP plant

NPC has short-listed contractors for its phthalic anhydride (PA) and dioctyl phthalate (DOP) plant at Esfahan after weighing up technical and financial proposals that bidders had submitted.
The short-listed contractors have been invited for final negotiations. The PA and DOP contract covers technology, engineering and procurement.
Located in the vicinity of the Esfahan Petrochemical Complex, in the province of Esfahan, the PA unit will have a capacity of 21 500 tonne/year and the DOP plant will produce 40 000 tonne per year.