NPC President, Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh says Iran will become one of the world's 10-top producers of ammonia/urea by 2010. Nematzadeh who was speaking at an international ammonia-urea seminar in Tehran on September 14 provided an overview of the company's plan for the expansion of its ammonia/urea capacity. He said NPC's urea capacity would rise from 2.4m tonne/year in 2005 to 7.2m tonne/year in 2010. The capacity, he said, would reach close to 9.9m tonne/year by 2015 when NPC projects are completed. Nematzadeh added that NPC was expected to bring onstream No.1 Ghadir and Kermanshah fertilizer plants by the end of the current Iranian year to 20 March 2006. Urea capacity at No.1 Ghadir and Kermanshah is 1m and 660,000 tonne/year respectively. The two-day seminar and exhibition was held by NPC/IPCC in partnership with the FMB in Tehran on 14-15 September. The event drew 334 participants from 29 countries, including some 94 delegates from 50 foreign companies. Among other things, it focused on Iran's emerging role in domestic and international urea and ammonia markets, international supply/demand outlook for urea and ammonia, and state-of-the-art advances in urea and ammonia production technologies.







NPC and Linde of Germany held a one-day seminar on H2 production technologies on 26 September in Tehran. Some 150 participants from NPC and NIOC as well as their subsidiaries plus private sector companies took part at the event. Topics discussed at the seminar by speakers from Linde included: HyCO Production Technology Portfolio, Buy the Gas or Buy the Plant?, HyCO Production Technologies, Multi Feedstock Hydrogen Plants, Top Fired Reformer Technology, Refinery Off-Gas (ROG) Integration in H2 Plants, PSA Design for ROG Utilization, Dynamic Plant Simulation, H2 Plant Operation Experience, Future Hydrogen Production and Infrastructure.