According to Ilam Petrochemical Plant, Hassan
Najafi Semnani in a meeting with Sara Fallahi, Ilam's representative in the
Islamic Consultative Assembly, pointed to the establishment of Ilam gas
refinery in 2007 with the aim of supplying the country with gas and feedstock for
Ilam Petrochemical Plant, and said: “$250 million in Tangbijar, $450 million in
the gas refinery, $1 billion in the HD unit and the first phase of the petrochemical
plant and $866 million in the second phase of Ilam Petrochemical Plant have
been invested so far.”
He described launching the largest olefin
unit in the west of the country in Ilam after 17 years without the presence of
technology foreign owners and builders the result of trust in the elites and
experts of the petrochemical industry to neutralize the oppressive sanctions,
and added: “Ilam has the ability and capacity to handle large oil, gas and
petrochemical industries in the country.”
Najafi Semnani, stating that the required
feed is supplied from Ilam gas refinery with 60% of the capacity, continued: “If
we receive feed with 100% capacity, production of wealth in olefins will reach
$500 million per year. Ilam Petrochemical Plant needs 923,000 tons of feedstock
per year to produce 458,000 tons of ethylene. Ethylene, propylene, pyrolysis benzene
and fuel oil are the most important products supplied in the olefin unit.”