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Asaluyeh Ethane Production to Increase by 2 Million Tons p.a.

(Tuesday, February 19, 2019) 13:39

Ethane production capacity in Asaluyeh in the southern Bushehr Province will rise by 2 million tons per annum upon the inauguration of four new phases of the South Pars Gas Field in Persian Gulf in March.

 

 Ethane production capacity in Asaluyeh is around 7.6 million tons a year. With the launching of the four phases output will reach 9.6 million tons, Iran Petronet website reported.

There also are plans to increase ethane production in the region in the next fiscal, including the first phase of Bushehr Petrochemical Complex with annual capacity of 850,000 tons of methane, and Parsian Sepehr Refinery, with 1.3 million tons per year, as well as phases 12 and 14 of South Pars, with a capacity of 1.7 and 1 million tons respectively.

 

Recently, Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zanganeh said the country's annual ethane production capacity will reach 17.6 million tons by March 2021, Shana wrote.

Addressing a ceremony to launch two petrochemical projects and a utility project in Asaluyeh, southern Iran, the official said Iran's ethane production capacity will reach 12.75 million tons by the end of the next Iranian calendar year to March 20, 2020.

Over the course of the past 5 years, since 2013, the year President Hassan Rouhani took office, 15 major petrochemical projects have come on-stream, the official said.

He referred to Ilam, Lorestan, Sulfuric acid unit of Urmia, Mahabad, Ammonia and Urea Production Unit of Shiraz, Kurdistan Petrochemical Plant, Karoon, PBR and SBR (Takht Jamshid) units as the projects that have come online since 2013, saying based on the 2011 prices, the value of the items produced by these facilities top $3.5 billion.

The official said that an investment of $1.85 billion had been made for construction of Phase III of Pardis Petrochemical Plant, Marjan Methanol Unit and Phase I of Damavand Petrochemical Utility Complex.

Zanganeh further said that the value of the items produced at Pardis and Marjan plants stood at $834 million annually.

He further touched on the increased production and exports of petrochemicals in Asaluyeh since 2013, saying Morvarid, Kavian, Entekhab and Takht Jamshid Pars Polystyrene Plants have come on-stream since the year.

The Iranian Minister of Petroleum said the facilities supply 2 mt/y of output and the value of the items produced by them crosses $4.359 billion dollars annually based on 2011 prices.

Iran's petrochemical output in terms of weight has increased from 42.5 million tons in 2013 to 54 million tons in 2017.

In the calendar year of 1396 (began March 2017), the total ethane production of the country was 6.11 million tons per year, up from 3.8 million tons per year in 1392, which is projected to reach 8 million tons in 1397, he added.

**Bidboland Gas Refinery Online by mid-2019

Zanganeh said Persian Gulf Bidboland Gas Refinery is one the agenda of the Iranian Ministry of Petroleum for production of ethane, adding the plant is to be fed by 2 billion cubic feet of gas from Khuzestan and will come on-stream by mind-2019.  

Parsian Ethane Recovery Unit, NGL 3200 in the West Karoon area, NGL 3100 in Ilam and Khark NGL units are other ethane production projects which are under construction and will come online in the coming months, the official added.

Kaveh Methanol Production Plant, First Phase of Bushehr Petrochemical Complex, Ilam Petrochemical Plant, Sabalan Methanol Production Unit, Lordegan Chemical Fertilizer Plant, Miandoab Petrochemical Plant and Sadaf SPR Unit of Bushehr Plant are other projects that are being built and once operational will yield $2.5 billion of revenue annually. The projects are being constructed with $4 billion of investment.

**Siraf Condensate Refinery Park Up for Grabs

Zanganeh said that Siraf Condensate Refining Project is in need of financing to be constructed, adding the project, with 480,000 barrels/day of gas condensates refining capacity, will consume all the country's gas condensate output and would leave no cargoes for export.

"We are optimistic to launch the projects by tapping the National Development Fund of Iran by the end of the Rouhani Administration," he said.

  

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