Addressing the ceremony, the President said the project would create great changes in the region and change the production process in favor of the poor. He said acceleration of the project would help develop donstream petrochemical industries. Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh who was also present at the ceremony, stated that construction of large oil and gas industrial units would not only bring about industrial development but also help develop petrochemical downstream industries. West ethylene pipeline is planned to carry ethylene produced at Pars Special Economic Energy Zone to Mahabad. Along the route a number of petrochemical companies will take their needed ethylene from the line to produce petrochemical end products such as polyethylene. The line is 1,500 km long and its diameter is 20 inches at the beginning and 10 inches at the end. Initial capacity of the company has also been estimated at 1.2 million tons per year. West Iran petrochemical project includes Kohgylouyeh-Boir Ahmad petrochemical project (an ethylene glycol production unit with the annual capacity of 450,000 tons and an ethylene oxide production unit with the annual capacity of 50,000 tons per annum); Lorestan province petrochemical project (a light and heavy linear polyethylene production unit with the annual capacity of 300,000 tons per year and a butane 1000 production unit with the annual capacity of 30,000 tons per year); Kermanshah province petrochemical project (a heavy polyethylene production unit with annual capacity of 300,000 tons per year); West Azarbaijan province petrochemical project (a light and heavy linear polyethylene production unit with the annual capacity of 300,000 tons per year); a butane 1000 production unit with the annual capacity of 30,000 tons as well as Kordestan petrochemical project and the 11th olefin project. Kordestan petrochemical project will be implemented in the vicinity of provincial capital city of Sanandaj and is among petrochemical companies that have created many jobs. The project will promote growth of downstream industries that are fed by petrochemical projects. It must be noted that the project includes building a heavy polyethylene unit with the annual capacity of 300,000 tons per annum.