NPC has issued invitation-to-bid (ITB) documents for Ilam ethylene cracker plant. The 318,000 tonne/year project will be built in the southwestern province of Ilam. Meanwhile, tender documents have also been prepared for the utility plant of the complex. The documents are expected to be issued soon to short-listed contractors.


Contractual negotiations have been completed for building a 660,000 tonne/year methanol plant on Kharg Island and NPC expects to sign the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) contract in the near future. It will be the second methanol project at Kharg Island and the NPC's fifth methanol project.
The existing methanol plant on the island has a capacity of 660,000-t/y of grade AA methanol. It consumes sweet gas for its feedstock, which is supplied by the nearby Kharg Petrochemical Company. License and basic engineering contracts for the island's first methanol plant were awarded to Lurgi of Germany. The plant was officially commissioned on March 13, 2000.


Short-listed contractors have submitted their technical and contractual bids for the NPC's 550,000 tonne/year ethylene glycols (EGs) project on Kharg Island. NPC is already working on the evaluation of bids. The EGs plant will be built downstream of a planned 500,000 tonne/year ethane cracker.
Meanwhile, bid documents are being prepared for the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning contract (EPCC) of a utilities complex which will be constructed on Kharg Island.


Contractors have submitted their technical and contractual bids for the 1m tonne/year ethylene plant of the NPC's Arvand Petrochemical Complex which will be located in the Petrochemical Special Economic Zone in Mahshahr.
The bids are being evaluated by the Petrochemical Industries Development Management Co. (PIDMCO), an NPC subsidiary.


NPC has issued tender documents to interested contractors for EPCC contract for the 1.2m tonne/year olefin cracker plant of the NPC's worldscale No. 11 Olefin facility. The complex will be built in the Pars Special Economic/Energy Zone in Assaluyeh.
Capacities downstream of the cracker include 300,000 tonne/year of high-density polyethylene (hdPE), 300,000 tonne/year of linear low-density polyethylene (lldPE), 600,000 tonne/year of styrene monomer and 700,000 tonne/year of monoethylene glycol (MEG).


NPC is preparing invitation-to-bid (ITB) documents for the EPCC contract for the 1.9m tonne/year ethylene cracker complex of its No. 12 Olefin plant.
Capacities downstream of the mega-scale cracker include 300,000 tonne/year of high-density polyethylene/linear-low density polyethylene (hdPE/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, 845,000 tonne/year of propylene (545,000 tonne/year of excess propylene), 277,000 tonne/year of butadiene, 752,000 tonne/year of fuel gas, 845,000 tonne/year of fuel oil and 225,000 tonne/year of ethylbenzene.


NPC is preparing tender documents for the third ammonia/urea plant in Shiraz Petrochemical Complex (SPC). The third plant, which will be built as part of SPC, will have a capacity of 2,050 tonne/day of ammonia and 3,250 tonne/day of urea.