NPC has awarded the contract for its MegaMethanol Complex No. 2 at Pars Special Economic/Energy Zone to a consortium of Lurgi of Germany and 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 Methanol Complex No.1.
MegaMethanol Complex No. 2 is duplicated of No.1 complex with same capacity of 5,000 tonne/day methanol grade AA using the same technology from Lurgi. The project's feedstock is natural gas and pure oxygen, which will be supplied by South Pars gas field and Mobin Petrochemical Co. respectively.
The complex is scheduled to be completed in 24 months. It will be implemented by an NPC subsidiary, Zagros Petrochemical Co (ZPC). When completed, the plants will produce 3.3m tonnes of methanol annually.
NPC is also building another methanol plant in Petrochemical Special Economic Energy Zone with a capacity of 1m tonnes per year.
It has two methanol facilities in operation in Kharg Island and Shiraz with a capacity of 740,000 tonne/year.
With the buildup in capacity, Iran's combined methanol output will reach 3.4m per year by 2005 enabling it to boost its share of global methanol production.





Construction work is making headway on a warehouses and tank farms facility at Bandar Imam Petrochemical Special Economic Zone. The 27-hectare facility, located at site No. 5 of the Zone, is composed of two major parts; petrochemicals and chemicals warehouses and tank farms. Phase one of the project, which has already been completed, includes eight silos covering an area of 16,320m². In addition to the warehouses, 19 storage tanks are also being built for handling 117,000 tonnes of liquid petrochemicals. They have registered a progress of 82% as of late March 2004.
Five of the tanks are made of stainless steel, two of which, each with a capacity of 5,000 tonnes, will house acetic acid while the other three, each with a capacity of 2,000 tonnes, will be used to store phenol.
The remaining 14 tanks, which are made of carbon steel, will be used for storing various liquid petrochemcials/chemicals, including di-ethylene glycol (DEG), epichrohydrin, aceton, naphtha, heavy-end aromatics and vinyl acetate monomer (VAM), dripoline pyrolysis gasoline (DPG), orthoxylene (OX), paraxylene (PX) and 2-ethyl hexanol (2EH). DPG, OX, PX and 2EH will be stored in floating-roof tanks.
The roofs of the fixed-roof tanks have been completed while work is making headway on the roofs of the floating-roof ones. Meanwhile, hydrotesting activity is proceeding as planned. The test has been completed for acetone and epichlorohydrin storage tanks and insulation work is in progress on them.
Along with the construction activities, civil work is under execution for the construction of control rooms, power stations and substations, workshop, pipe, power and instrument trenches, ramps and bridges to name a few.
Meanwhile, work has started on building on-the-ground and under-ground pipelines and installing equipment.