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Iranian President Seyyed Mohammad Khatami on 24 February 2004 officially inaugurated two NGL
recovery units 1200/1300.
The plants, which were put into operation in Q2 and Q3 of 2003 respectively, provide an additional
48,500 b/d of feed for NPC's subsidiary Bandar Imam Petrochemical Complex (BIPC).
Located in the vicinity of Gachsaran City, NGL-1200 plant processes 260 MMSCFD of associated
rich sour gas producing 27,300 barrel per day of sweet NGL while NGL-1300 unit, which lies in Bibi
Hakimeh region, processes 180 MMSCFD of associated rich sour gas producing 21,200 barrel per day of
sweet NGL. The plants are connected to BIPC through pipelines which stretch for 155 km.
The NGL produced at the plants will provide feedstock for the natural fractionation (NF) plant of
BIPC at design capacity rate and higher, increasing the output at the plant which produces ethane,
propane, butane and C5+. Part of the output from the NF plant is exported while the rest is used
as feed for other BIPC plants and a number of facilities at the Petrochemical Special Economic Zone.
Iran's Oil Industries' Engineering and Construction (OIEC) and its subsidiary Energy Industries
Engineering & Design (EIED) were contractors for the basic and detailed engineering, supply of
equipment and construction. Construction work on the plants started in July 2000.
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National Petrochemical Co. (NPC) will shortly issue invitation-to-bid (ITB)
documents to interested contractors for its worldscale Olefin No. 12 project,
which will be built at the Pars Special Economic/Energy Zone in Assaluyeh.
The complex will consist of the world's biggest ethylene cracker with a capacity
of 1.9m tonne/year.
Capacities downstream of the complex include 300,000 tonne/year of high-density
polyethylene (hdPE)/linear low-density polyethylene (lldPE), 660,000 tonne/year
of monoethylene glycol (MEG), 70,000 tonne/year of diethylene glycol (DEG),
300,000 tonne/year of polypropylene (PP), 388,000 tonne/year of benzene, 196,000
tonne/year of toluene, 128,000 tonne/year of mixed xylene, 545,000 tonne/year of
excess propylene, 277,000 tonne/year of butadiene, 752,000 tonne/year of fuel gas
and 979,000 tonne/year of fuel oil.
A consortium of Japanese and Iranian companies has been chosen as the EPCC contractor
for Ilam's high-density polyethylene (hdPE) plant. Japan's Mitsui Engineering &
Shipbuilding (MES) together with Iran's Energy Industries Engineering & Design
(EIED) and Oil Industries' Engineering and Construction (OIEC) won the contract
for the 300,000 tonne/year plant.
The contract covers provision of license, basic and detailed engineering, procurement
and supply of equipment, erection and construction, technical services, commissioning
and performance test.
Meanwhile, technical and contractual negotiations for Ilam ethylene cracker have reached
an advanced stage and NPC expects to pick up the contractors for the project in the near
future.
The project comprises a cracker producing 318,000 tonne/year of ethylene.It will also produce 80,000 tonne/year
of polymer-grade propylene. Feedstock will be sourced from a nearby gas refinery which is
already under construction.
NPC will soon float tender documents for the construction of a new natural fractionation
(NF) plant at Bandar Imam Petrochemical Company (BIPC). The plant will have an input capacity
of 100,000 barrel/day of natural gas liquefied (NGL). It will produce ethane, propane, butane
and heavier cuts, parts of which will be used as feed at various BIPC's downstrean plants. BIPC
currently has two NF plants each with a capacity of 60,000 barrel/day.
Shahid Tondguyan Petrochemical Company (STPC), an NPC subsidiary, is planning to bring onstream
its No.1 polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plants in the second
quarter of 2004. The two plants will be commissioned in the first quarter of 2004.
The PET-1 project has a capacity of 412,000 tonne/year, consisting of a 235,000 tonne/year of
fiber-grade line and a 177,000 tonne/year of bottle-grade line. The PTA-1 facility has an annual
output of 350,000 tonnes. The integrated No.1 PET/PTA project is situated in Petrochemical Special
Economic Zone.
STPC plans to commission its second PET/PTA complex in Q4 of 2004 with startup planned for Q1 of 2005.
The PET/PTA-2 is already 69% complete.
It will consist of a PTA unit with a capacity of 350,000 tonne/year and three lines of PET with a
combined output capacity of 396,000 tonne/year consisting of a bottle-grade line, a fiber-grade line
and a partially oriented polyester yarn (POY) line.
Paraxylene (PX) feedstock will be sourced from the NPC's subsidiaries, Bandar Imam and Bouali Sina
companies, while ethylene glycol (EG) will come from Arak Petrochemical and partly from abroad.When Olefin No.7 or
Marun Petrochemical Co.is completed ,it will supply all the required EG.Acetic acid will be
supplied by Fanavaran company, another NPC subsidiary.
The financing contract for the first phase of the isocyanates complex in the Petrochemical Special
Economic Zone, southwest of Iran became effective on 24 December 2003. The EUR 150m financing
is provided by the Netherland's ING Bank and is backed by the German and Swedish exports credit
agencies Hermes and EKN.
The complex will be built in two phases. Total investment in the complex is estimated at about
EUR 381m.
Work on the first phase is 49% complete. The engineering work on the complex is 99% complete while
procurement and supply activities and construction work are 44% and 35% complete respectively.
The project consists of four process plants, a 40,000 tonne/year toluene di-isocyanate (TDI) unit,
a 40,000 tonne/year methylene di-phenyl di-isocyanate (MDI) plant, a 30,000 tonne/year aniline unit,
and a 56,000 tonne/year nitric acid (NA) plant. The MDI plant produces 9 different grades.
The startup for the first phase, which comprises the TDI unit, is scheduled for April 2005. The second
phase is expected to become operational in late 2006.
The project is being implemented and will be operated by Karoon Petrochemical Co., a tripartite joint
venture between NPC, Germany's Hansa Chemie and Sweden's Chematur Engineering. NPC holds a 40% stake in
the venture with the other two partners holding 30% each.
MDI's main application is in polyurethane foams, which are used in construction, refrigeration, packaging
and insulation. It is also used in the production of elastomers, coatings, plastics, adhesives and sealants.
Current global MDI consumption is estimated at some 250,000 tonne/year with Asia, notably China having the
fastest growth. The US, followed by Europe, has the largest share of the global MDI production. Further
information on the Karoon complex is available at www.krnpc.com.
On 28 February 2004, NPC awarded the contract for its Ammonia/Urea Complex No.2 at Pars Special Economic/Energy
Zone to a consortium of Toyo Engineering and Chiyoda of Japan and Petrochemical Industries Design and Engineering
Co (PIDEC) of Iran.
The contract covers provision of license, basic and detailed engineering, procurement and supply of equipment and
supervision services.
The complex will be located adjacent to Ammonia/Urea complex No. 1.
It is a duplication of No.1 complex with the same capacity of 2050 tonne/day of ammonia
and 3250 tonne/day of urea. It will use MW Kellogg and Stamicarbon's technologies for the ammonia and urea plants
respectively. The urea granulation process is licensed by Hydro Fertilizer Technology (HFT).
The project's feedstock is natural gas, which will be supplied by South Pars gas field.
The complex is scheduled to be completed in 24 months. It will be implemented by Petrochemical Industries
Development Management Co (PIDMCO), an NPC subsidiary.
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