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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