According to the National Petrochemical
Company (NPC), Behzad Mohammadi, during a visit to the plant on Wednesday, said
the project was spending its final construction months, adding operation of
4,500 people/day in the facility was an indication of the great efforts exerted
for completion of the project.
Mohammadi expressed optimism that the
project would come on-stream within the next six months.
Construction of the plant began in 2014
for production of 660,000 tons/year of ammonia and 1,073 t/y of urea.
The plant is to be fed by 861 million
cubic meters/year of natural gas and is being built in 50 hectares of land in
Masjed Soleyman, Khuzestan Province, southwestern Iran.
Switzerland’s Casale SA has provided the
technical savvy for the ammonia unit of the project, while Japan’s Toyo acted
was the provider of the urea unit’s technical knowhow.
Moreover, China’s Wuhan has been
responsible for detailed engineering, logistics and construction and
installation of the project.
On Jan 29, the ethane produced by the
onshore refineries of phases 22 to 24 of the South Pars gas field is now being
fed to petrochemical plants as feedstock.
According to Pars Oil and Gas Company
(POGC), the second consignment of processed items in the refineries has been
delivered to petrochemicals consumers operating in Assaluyeh, southern Iran,
via a pipeline.
Given the fact that the first ethane
production train of the refinery was online, the gas produced at phase 22 of
the offshore field was processed and sent to petrochemicals plants for
consumption.
The first platform of the phases is now
operating with 14 mcm/d of sour gas production capacity.
Once fully operational, the phase would
supply 2,750 tons of ethane.
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