An ethylene pipeline that will carry the product to northwestern�Iran�from the southern port town of Assaluyeh will start next month,�Mehr�reported, citing an official with the National Iranian Petrochemical Co.
Iran�s West Ethylene Pipeline, which can transport 2.5 million metric tons a year, will feed 13 petrochemical complexes in the Kermanshah province once operational, Ali-Mohammad Bassaqzadeh said in the state-run news agency report.
In the Iranian year that ended on March 19, the nation exported $14.2 billion worth of polymer and petrochemical products to more than 60 countries, Mehr said.
The Persian Gulf state exported 7.7 million tons of the products valued at $6.1 billion in the first six months of the year, NIPC�s managing director Abdolhossein Bayat said in a report published today on the Oil Ministry�s�Shana�news website.
Iran, which is under financial and energy sanctions by Western nations over its nuclear program, is a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
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