According to the 20-year investment plan, the country’s value share is 50 billion dollars.
Based on the estimate, the value of the world’s petrochemical products during the period is 820 billion dollars while the worth of the Middle East’s petrochemicals at the beginning of the 20-year plan, 2005, equaled to 25 billion dollars, with
The world’s share during this period 333 stood at billion dollars, whose 0.9 percent belonged to
The country plans to sell 75 tons of the predicted output.
According to the estimate,
During the period, domestic petrochemical complexes are predicted to produce at least 12 million tons of ethylene, 10 million tons of polymer, 10 million tons of urea, 14 million tons of methanol, and 4 million tons of BTX.
The Managing Director of Ghadir Petrochemical Company Mohammad-Hassan Keshvari said
Ghadir Petrochemical Company is a strategic plant in Pars Special Energy Economic Zone (Assalouyeh), which is expected to export 1.15 million tons of urea and ammonia per annum.
The country has planned to produce 30.3 million tons of petrochemical products in the current year.
Of the targeted figure, 5.901 million tons will be distributed among domestic petrochemical complexes, 4.442 million tons is sold inside the country, and 12.107 million tons is exported.
The country is implementing 24 petrochemical projects in the Fourth Five-Year Socioeconomic Development Plan (2005-2010).
Up to now, the projects have totally made 29.5 percent physical progress and are to produce 22.798 million tons of petrochemicals per annum.
When the projects come on stream, they are expected to earn
National Petrochemical Company will invest the huge sum in 27 petrochemical projects during the Fifth Plan, out of which 9.2 billion dollars would be funded by hard currencies.
“According to the Fifth Plan,
Petrochemical products accounted for the highest share of non-oil goods
Totally 42.2 percent of the weight and 38.6 percent of the value of exported non-oil products belonged to petrochemicals.
The country exported 14,236,800 tons of petrochemical products, valued at 6.11 billion dollars, during the yearlong period, showing 115.5 and 140.8 percent increases in terms of weight and worth respectively when compared to those in their preceding year.
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