VOL. XXXIX

No. 11

11-December-1995

IRAN

Iran Opens Petrochemical Industry To Foreign Investment

Iran's National Petrochemical Company (NPC) is seeking to attract foreign partners with offers of tax and feedstock pricing concessions. NPC has plans for several projects worth more than $3.3bn, all of which it intends to bring on stream or near completion during the country's second five-year plan (March 1995-March 2000). According to NPC President Ahmad Rahgozar, foreign partners will be...