Pars Petrochemical Co., a subsidiary of NPC, which is responsible for constructing and operating NPC's olefins No. 9 facility, has selected the engineering and procurement contractors for its offsite facilities in Assaluyeh, Iran.
The local company Sazeh and the Spanish company Intecsa Uhde Industrial won the contract, which calls for basic design, detailed engineering, procurement and supply of equipment for the offsite facilities and utilities distribution network for the project.
When completed, the offsite facilities will cater to the requirements of the following units of the 9th olefins complex:

· C2+ recovery and fractionation unit
· Ethane cracking unit
· Low density polyethylene (ldPE)
· Medium/high density polyethylene unit
· Ethylbenzene/Styrene monomer unit

Offsite facilities shall incorporate provision of pumps for loading of various olefins No. 9 products like propane, butane, toluene and styrene monomer as well as unloading of benzene, propylene and hexene-1 and their storage for which double-walled storage tanks and spheres are to be built.
Mobin centralized utility complex will provide the olefin No. 9 utilities requirements, but, distribution of utilities to various units shall be done through this contract. Flares for C2 recovery and ethane cracker are also in the scope of the offsite contract.



Mobin Petrochemical Company has awarded the contract for its seawater intake and cooling water distribution package in Assaluyeh, south of Iran, to a local company. Sanaie Daryaiee Iran (Sadra) won the lump sum turnkey contract for the detail engineering, procurement and supply of equipment, construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up and performance test of the plant.
The plant will receive water at a maximum temperature of 35 degrees centigrade from a depth of 30 meters and a distance of 1 kilometer from the coast where the NPC projects are being developed. The water will be transferred through concrete culverts to a filtration and pump station on the coast. The plant will distribute 360,000 m3/h of water to NPC facilities in Assaluyeh on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf.
Mobin, a subsidiary of NPC, is responsible for implementing and operating a utilities complex which also consists of power and steam, industrial gases, and desalination and water treatment units to meet the requirements of NPC's petrochemical projects.



NPC is expected to choose an EP contractor for an ammonia plant in the near future. An NPC subsidiary, Petrochemical Industries Development Management Co. (PIDMCO) has been negotiating with short-listed bidders for the project and is expected to announce the winner shortly.
The project will be built at Razi Petrochemical Complex (RPC) in south Iran near the northern coast of the Persian Gulf.
It will have a capacity of 2050 tonne/day (676,500-t/y).
RPC already has two ammonia plants each with a capacity of 330,000 tonne/year. It has an overall production capacity of 3.2 million tonnes per year.



PIDMCO is continuing to hold technical-contractual negotiations with short-listed bidders for a 300,000-t/y polyvinyl chloride (PVC) in Bandar Imam.



NPC has awarded the detailed engineering, procurement and construction contract for its petrochemical port to a local Iranian company. The port will be built in Assaluyeh, south of Iran on the coast of the Persian Gulf. Khatam-ol-Anbia Construction Group has been selected as the contractor for the project.
The port will have an annual loading and unloading capacity of 27-30 million tonnes of petrochemicals, including 5-6 millions tonnes of solid products and 22-24 million tonnes of liquid products. It will consist of 14 berths suitable for berthing vessels with different capacities up to 60,000 tonnes (DWT).






NPC has extended the deadline for submission of bids for Kharg Island olefins and methanol projects.
NPC had announced earlier that it would construct two petrochemical plants in Kharg Island, which include a 500,000 tonne/year olefin plant and a 660,000 tonne/year methanol plant.
The projects will consume ethane as their feedstock which will be supplied by the National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC)'s fields in the region.



NPC subsidiary PIDMCO is holding technical and contractual negotiations to pick up an EP contractor for Kermanshah petrochemical project. The negotiations include ammonia and urea plants as well as utilities and offsite facilities. The fertilizer project will be built in the western province of Kermanshah.
Kermanshah fertilizer project is slated to produce 396,000-t/y of ammonia and 660,000-t/y of urea.NPC has a 34% equity in Kermanshah project.