VOL. XLVII

No 05

2-February-2004

IRAN

Irans NPC Invites Bids For Olefins 8 And 11 Crackers

Irans National Petrochemical Company (NPC) has invited tenders to build world-scale ethylene crackers, which will form part of the Olefins 8 and Olefins 11 petrochemical complexes at Bandar Imam and Assaluyeh respectively. The Olefins 8 complex was originally intended to be built by Shell, the Shell/BASF joint venture Basell, and NPC (MEES, 25 February 2002), but the two sides could not reach agreement over...