{"id":7821,"date":"2023-09-24T12:10:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T12:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=7821"},"modified":"2023-09-24T12:10:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T12:10:56","slug":"iran-attains-self-sufficiency-in-petrochemical-industry-npc-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/7821\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Attains Self-Sufficiency in Petrochemical Industry: NPC Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\"><p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0The chief executive of the Iranian National Petrochemical Company (NPC) said that 100 percent of the petrochemical complexes in the country are administered by the company.<\/p>\n<div class=\"story\" data-readmoretitle=\"Read more\">\n<p>Deputy Oil Minister Morteza Shahmirzaei made the remarks on Saturday and emphasized that the company is now an exporter of petrochemical parts and equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Turning to the current status of the country\u2019s petrochemical industry in the world, he drew a comparison between the situation of the petrochemical industry before and after the Islamic Revolution and noted, \u201cIran had possessed seven petrochemical complexes before the Islamic Revolution while\u00a0the number\u00a0is currently close to 70 \u00a0and they produce\u00a0more than 550 petrochemicals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s petrochemical industry has progressed significantly despite the cruel sanctions imposed against the country, Shahmirzaei stated.<\/p>\n<p>Until before the Islamic Revolution, Iran\u2019s petrochemical industry was heavily dependent on foreign companies in such a way that the country was importing all types of catalysts and other related products but now 100 percent of the\u00a0capacities of petrochemical companies are fully administered by the NPC, the deputy oil minister went on to say.<\/p>\n<p>Catalyst is a substance that leads to the outbreak of chemical changes and turns gas into liquid, he said, stating that the country is presently an exporter of these petrochemical products overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in his remarks, the CEO of the NPC pointed to the International IRAN PLAST 2023 and said that 210 foreign companies took part in the exhibition, which shows the\u00a0progress of the country in the petrochemical sector.<\/p>\n<p>He also put the current petrochemical output of the country at 92 million tons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2023-09-24T12:10:56+00:00\"> 24 September 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chief executive of the Iranian National Petrochemical Company (NPC) said that 100 percent of the petrochemical complexes in the country are administered by the company.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,18,22,36,19,21],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-7821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-headline","category-iran","category-lastnews","category-news","category-petrochemical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7821"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=7821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}