The chief executive of the National Petrochemical Company (NPC) Morteza Shahmirzaei says that as much as 97 petrochemical facilities are operating across Iran.
The official referred to the growth in Iran’s petrochemical industry, adding that there were only 6 petrochemical complexes in the country when the 1979 Islamic Revolution toppled former Shah and the Islamic Republic was founded 45 years ago.
Noting that the country produces some 550 different types of petrochemical products, he said that each one of these products helps the development of a part of the Iranian industry.
He expected that Iran’s petrochemical output will reach 100 million metric tons (mt) by the end of the current calendar year to March 2025.
Ahmad Mahdavi Abhari, the director general of the Association of Petrochemical Industry Corporation (APIC), said earlier this month that Iran’s petrochemical output stood at 67 million mt before President Ebrahim Raisi took office in August 2021.