Referring to the negotiations that have been held since April this
year with Russian delegations for the export of Iranian catalyst to Russia, Morteza
Shahmirzaei said on Thursday: “Iranian catalysts are being successfully used in
Russian petrochemical complexes; the Russians also did not believe that the
quality of the catalysts was so high, because the Chinese catalysts did not
work in the reactors of their petrochemical complexes; now they believe that
the quality of the Iranian catalysts was high and competed with the best in the
world.”
He listed the localization of catalysts as one of the strategies of
the Ministry of Petroleum in the 13th government, and added: “We are planning
to localize all the catalysts of this industry and based on the comprehensive
catalyst document that we have prepared, I can say that we do not have a long
way to go.”
Referring to the support of the national oil, gas, refining and
distribution companies and the special support of the deputy minister and the
oil minister for the petrochemical industry, the deputy minister of oil for
petrochemical affairs continued: “If we are going to have a dynamic economy in
the country, we must follow the path of the petrochemical industry.”
Shahmirzaei stated that 70 petrochemical complexes with an annual
production capacity of 90 million tons are operating in Iran and the sales of
the products reach about $25 billion.