Olefins 8 MEG unit imminent

30 April 2004
An engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) tender is to be launched soon for the monoethylene glycol (MEG) unit at the olefins 8 complex run by Arvand Petrochemical Companyin Bandar Imam. The project will have capacity of about 600,000 tonnes a year (t/y) and is expected to be worth more than $200 million (MEED 23:4:04).

Bids for the olefins 8 ethane cracker are now under evaluation. Four companies bid for the plant, which will have capacity of 1.1 million t/y. The bidders are Germany's Linde, Paris-based Technip, Europe's ABB Lummus Globaland a European office of the US' Stone & Webster. The olefins 8 project will also include: a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plant of 350,000 t/y, a medium-density polyethylene (MDPE) plant of 350,000 t/y, a di-triethylene glycol plant of 60,000 t/y and a pyrolysis gasoline plant of 85,000 t/y. The main feedstock will be 1.2 million t/y of ethane provided by National Iranian Gas Company. Arvand is a subsidiary of National Petrochemical Company (NPC).

NPC's other main MEG project is a 500,000-t/y plant at the Kharg island petrochemical complex. The bidders for that project are Italy's Tecnimont, Japan's Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuildingand Namvaran Consulting Engineers Managersand Petrochemical Industries Design & Engineering Company (Pidec), both local.

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