{"id":9235,"date":"2023-12-25T10:53:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T10:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=9235"},"modified":"2023-12-25T10:53:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T10:53:49","slug":"meeting-technology-needs-at-home-a-must-iran-petrochemical-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/9235\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting technology needs at home a must: Iran petrochemical 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 National Petrochemical Company (NPC) managing director on Sunday said the petrochemical industry\u2019s technology needs must be satisfied by Iranian companies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"item-body\">\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Delivering speech during a meeting with students and elites of Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Morteza Shahmirzaei added, \u201cWe have to get rid of dependence on foreign countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Diversity in an industry\u2019s basket of products is one of the indices for assessing its capabilities, said the CEO of NPC, adding domestic petrochemical sector is now producing 550 grades of products and categorized as one of the strongest industries of the country.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to him, the country\u2019s annual petrochemical production capacity tops 92 million tons and 70 complexes are now producing petrochemicals.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Iran\u2019s petrochemical industry \u2013 products, equipment, and technical know-how \u2013 was completely dependent on imports in the pre-revolution era, Shahmirzaei pointed out and continued, \u201cToday, over 85 percent of the petrochemical sector\u2019s needs are met by Iranian companies and manufacturers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Unlike to the past, designing, executing, pre-commissioning, commissioning, exploiting, and overhauling are all done now by Iranian experts, he underlined.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He pledged that all catalysts used in the oil industry will be produced domestically by the Petrochemical Research and Technology Company in collaboration with research and knowledge-based companies by the end of the 13th administration\u2019s term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2023-12-25T10:53:49+00:00\"> 25 December 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Petrochemical Company (NPC) managing director on Sunday said the petrochemical industry\u2019s technology needs must be satisfied by Iranian companies.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,22,36,19,21,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-9235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-iran","category-lastnews","category-news","category-petrochemical","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235","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=9235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9235"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=9235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}