Iran's West Ethylene pipeline designed to transport ethylene from Assaluyeh to manufacturers of downstream plastic products at Kermanshah province in the western part of the country is almost complete and will be inaugurated in December, the Tehran Times newspaper reported Monday.
"Once the pipeline becomes operational, it will feed 13 petrochemical complexes," the newspaper reported. "The West Ethylene Pipeline includes 8 pressure boosting stations and it will transfer ethylene from the Pars Special Economic Energy Zone situated in Assaluyeh to petrochemical complexes in western province of Iran."
The 2,700 km pipeline will have the capacity to transport 2.5 million mt/year of ethylene. It will get ethylene from the Kavian Petrochemical Company's Olefin 11 plant located in the Pars Special Economic Zone at Assaluyeh. The plant comprises two 1 million mt/year gas-fed steam crackers.
Olefin 11 has been undergoing test runs since mid-2011 and was supposed to begin operations mid-September. The startup has been delayed, and the Kavian Petrochemical Company has not specified the reason for the delay or said when it plans to begin operations.
