Behzad Mohammadi, Deputy Minister of Petroleum for Petrochemical
Affairs and the CEO of the National Petrochemical Company, paid a visit to
CCERCI on Tuesday, December 29, 2020.
During the visit, he underscored the keen support of the NPC
for close cooperation of its research arm, i.e. PRTC, with CCERCI in various
key petrochemical fields including PDH, MTO and ACN.
MTO is the technology for conversion of methanol to light
olefins; PDH concerns conversion of propane to propylene, and ACN concerns
Acrylonitrile value chain.
Iran is heavily investing on projects in 4 chains of
methanol, propylene, benzene and ethylene. Some of these projects will be
operational in the form of the third leap of the petrochemical industry by 2025
and some of them by 2027.
In general, the technical savvy of these projects is
produced or obtained with the help of the Petrochemical Research and Technology
Company, which will be the driving force behind the petrochemical downstream
industry, and the products supplied in these chains will provide feedstock for downstream
industries.