Attempts are underway to start the export of products by petrochemical companies based in Mokran Petrochemical Town in Chabahar County, Sistan-Baluchetan Province, to international markets within a year, according to a person with the knowledge of the matter.
“Mokran Petrochemical Town is under construction on an area of 1,200 hectares in Chabahar Free Zone and another 600 hectares in the northern side of the town will be also allocated to the development of the downstream petrochemical chain in the near future,” Alireza Moniri Abyaneh, the managing director of the Negin Mokran Petrochemical Development Company, as the developer of the industrial and non-industrial infrastructure of the town, was also quoted as saying by the National Petrochemical Company’s news service Nipna.
The construction of 18 production units has been planned in the town. When completed, Chabahar will become Iran’s third petrochemical hub after Mahshahr in the southwest and Asalouyeh in the south, he added.
About $13.7 billion have been invested in the construction of Mokran Petrochemical Town. It will create employment for thousands of people when it becomes fully operational in the coming years.
The petrochemical town is located 20 km from Chabahar and 35 km from Shahid Beheshti Port.
With the completion of the first phase of the project, which includes five propylene units, one ammonia and urea unit, and one LNG unit, more than 12,000 people will be employed in the town.
All the units will be supplied with methane gas delivered via a pipeline from Iranshahr and have a production capacity of 8.5 million tons of various products per annum.