Bushehr, Dec 17, IRNA
As soon as full completion of Phase One of the Iran West Ethylene Pipeline, injection of ethylene into this pipeline started Monday after an official ceremony on the occasion.
According to the IRNA correspondent in Bushehr, the Engineering Affairs Manager of Iran West Ethylene Pipeline Mohammad-Reza Rahimi said after the putting to use ceremony of the pipeline in a meeting with the press reporters, 'Injection of the ethylene produced by Kavian Petrochemical Plant into the completed part of this pipeline had started a while ago, and the process of transferring has thus far been satisfactory.'
Rahimi added, 'The transferred ethylene thru this pipeline has also been forwarded to Arvand Petrochemical Plant for further processing.'
He said, 'Kermanshah Polymer Petrochemical Plant is being equipped with a drier system due to the existing humidity at that factory and as soon as completion of that project ethylene would be fully transferred to that plant.'
Engineer Rahimi added, 'Phase One of Iran West Ethylene Pipeline is 1,200 kilometers long and the diameter of the installed pipelines are in a range from 8 to 24 inches.'
Rahimi said, 'By the time that constructing and putting to use of the Gachsaran Petrochemical Plant would be completed the Dena Pipeline, too, would be completed and put to use.'
The Engineering Affairs Manager of Iran West Ethylene Pipeline said, 'As the construction of the pressure boosting stations along the route of this pipeline would be completed, the transfer rate of ethylene in the pipeline would increase and the West Ethylene Pipeline would be able to feed 13 Petrochemical plants in it long path.'
Iran's West Ethylene pipeline designed to transport ethylene from Assaluyeh to manufacturers of downstream plastic products at Kermanshah province in the western part of the country is now complete.
The West Ethylene Pipeline includes 8 pressure boosting stations and it will transfer ethylene from the Pars Special Economic Energy Zone situated in Assaluyeh to petrochemical complexes in western province of Iran.'
The 2,700 km pipeline have the capacity to transport 2.5 million mt/year of ethylene. It will get ethylene from the Kavian Petrochemical Company's Olefin 11 plant located in the Pars Special Economic Zone at Assaluyeh. The plant comprises two 1 million mt/year gas-fed steam crackers.
Iran's West Ethylene Pipeline, extending from Assalouyeh in the south to Kermanshah in the west, is almost complete and it will be inaugurated next month, IRNA news agency quoted an official with National Iranian Petrochemical Company as saying on Monday. Ali-Mohammad Bassaqzadeh said that necessary tests have been carried out and the pipeline will be commissioned within less than 30 days.
Once the pipeline becomes operational, it will feed 13 petrochemical complexes, Nader Qorbani, an official with the National Iranian Petrochemical Company said in June.
The West Ethylene Pipeline includes 8 pressure boosting stations and it will transfer ethylene from the Pars Special Economic Energy Zone situated in Assalouyeh to petrochemical complexes in western provinces of Iran.
The pipeline project has a capacity of 2.5 million tons per annum and will reduce the current concentration of petrochemical industries from Iran's southern provinces to the country's western region.
The inauguration of new pipeline project, and the setting up of 11 petrochemical complexes along the pipeline, would boost Iran's petrochemical capacity by 3.5 million tons per annum.
In the last Iranian calendar year that ended on March 19, 2012, the country exported $14.2 billion worth of polymer and petrochemical products weighing 18.2 million tons, to over 60 countries.
The West Ethylene Pipeline project as well as the Kavian Petrochemical Complex, situated in Iran's Pars Special Economic Energy Zone would soon become operational, the National Iranian Petrochemical Company (NIPC) has announced.
Ahmad Reza Heydarnia, Projects Director at the NIPC, said the West Ethylene Pipeline will transfer ethylene from the Pars Special Economic Energy Zone situated in Assaluyeh in Bushehr, southern Iran, to petrochemical complexes in western provinces of Iran.
The pipeline project has a capacity of 2.5 million tons per annum and will reduce the current concentration of petrochemical industries from Iran's southern provinces to the country's western region.
The inauguration of new pipeline project, and the setting up of 11 petrochemical complexes along the pipeline, would boost Iran's petrochemical capacity by 3.5 million tons per annum.
Last week, three petrochemical projects in the country's Mahshahr Petrochemical Special Economic Zone went operational.
In recent years, Iran has significantly widened its petrochemical industry and the NIPC has become the second-largest manufacturer and exporter of petrochemical products in the Middle East after Saudi Arabia.
In the last Iranian calendar year that ended on March 19, 2012, the country exported US$ 14.2 billion worth of polymer and petrochemical products weighing 18.2 million tons, to over 60 countries.
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