VOL. XLVI

No 28

14-July-2003

IRAN

NPC Invites Bids For Ilam Ethylene Cracker

Irans National Petrochemical Company (NPC) has invited bids from international and local firms to build an ethylene cracker at Ilam. The company plans to build a greenfield polyolefins plant alongside a gas refinery which is under construction at Ilam (MEES, 3 February). In its latest News Bulletin, NPC says that the cracker will have capacity to produce 318,000 tons/year of ethylene, which will be used to feed a 300,000...