Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 27

4-July-2005

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Methanol Capacity More Than Doubled For Planned Second Kharg Plant

Kharg Petrochemical Company (KPC) has re-signed a contract for the construction of a second methanol plant on Kharg Island, to attain production capacity of 1.64mn tons/year, up from the original 660,000 t/y. The planned expansion raised the anticipated project cost to 346mn from the earlier 142mn. Since the original contract was awarded last summer, KPC has been...