Addressing a virtual ceremony to launch the major gas project on Thursday, Jafar Rabiee said with the launch of the refinery, PGPIC’s petrochemical investment in the current Iranian calendar year which began on March 21 has crossed $5 billion in the petrochemical industry.

“Today, we are at a point where large-scale projects can be implemented by the non-government sector,” he said, adding prior to its official inauguration, the refinery had already exported 5 shipments.

Rabiee further voiced the holding’s preparedness to step in upstream projects of the oil industry.

“PGPIC has invested $3.4 billion in the project of which $2.2 billion was provided by the dipping into the National Development Fund of Iran and the rest were provided by the banking syndicate,” he added.