VOL. XLIV

No. 02

8-January-2001

IRAN

Irans NPC Awards Methanol Plant Contract To Germanys Lurgi And Local Firm PIDEC

Irans National Petrochemical Company (NPC) has awarded a $145mn contract to Germanys Lurgi Oel-Gas-Chemie and local firm Petrochemical Industries Design and Engineering Company (PIDEC) to build a 1.65mn tons/year methanol plant at Assaluyeh on the Gulf coast. It will form part of a world-scale petrochemical complex being built at Assaluyeh to utilize some of the gas produced from...