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Oil Innovation, Technology Park Office Opens in Mahshahr

Oil Innovation, Technology Park Office Opens in Mahshahr
(Saturday, May 27, 2023) 16:18

TEHRAN (NIPNA) -- The Oil Innovation and Technology Park Office was inaugurated in the Zarin Nakhl Building of the Petrochemical Special Economic Zone Organization in Mahshahr, southwestern Iran.

The official was launched on Saturday, May 27, 2023, with the aim of accelerating and facilitating the presence of knowledge-based companies.

According to the Petrochemical Special Economic Zone Organization, the opening ceremony was attended by Mohammad Esmaeil Kefayati, the head of the Oil and Gas Innovation and Technology Park, and Payam Barzegar, the CEO of the Petrochemical Special Economic Zone Organization.

Barzegar said at the ceremony: "The memorandum of understanding with the Oil and Gas Innovation and Technology Park is one of the main approaches to increase and improve the communication between knowledge-based companies and industry."

He added: "The presence of knowledge-based companies in the Petrochemical Special Economic Zone will have many blessings and the innovation ecosystem will have more cooperation and dimensions with the signing of this memorandum of understanding."

He continued: "We intend to enhance the level of communication between knowledge-based companies and industry and move towards operationalizing ideas, as there are many capacities in the petrochemical special zone."

The CEO of the Petrochemical Special Economic Zone Organization, referring to the holding of the Petrofan Zone technology event in February 2023 in the special zone, said: "After the Petrofan Zone technology event, in which 34 memoranda of cooperation were signed with petrochemical companies, several knowledge-based companies requested land after seeing the space in the area to pursue their activities more seriously and with presence near petrochemical companies."

Barzegar said: "In order to support knowledge-based companies, we have on our agenda allocating a space by a private sector investor that we will provide to applicants after completing construction and obtaining permits."

He added: "Our pride is to be able to host young scientists and valuable people of Islamic Iran and have people who are powerful and hopeful for the future alongside industry."

The CEO of the Petrochemical Special Economic Zone Organization said: "We want to make the scientific space in the special zone and the technological, innovative and knowledge-based ecosystem speak first in the region. The high capacity of $30 billion in the special zone and the relatively long life of industries is a very valuable opportunity for knowledge-based companies."

Barzegar said: "We hope that with the opening of the Oil Innovation and Technology Park office, the ecosystem of knowledge-based companies will become richer and we will become an exemplary region for the presence of knowledge-based companies by chaining innovative companies and synergizing human capital and technological capabilities of knowledge-based companies."

Russia, an applicant for Iranian petrochemical catalysts

The head of the Oil Innovation and Technology Park also said at this meeting, which was attended by students from Amir Kabir University: "There are many capabilities in the country, one example of which is in petrochemicals, producing catalysts that are popular in Iran and the world."

He added: "Russia is interested in using catalysts that are produced in this country by young people from this land."

The director of Oil Industry Innovation and Technology Park said: "The demand for Iranian catalysts was so high that Iranian companies did not have the capacity to respond to this volume of demand by Russia."

Kefayati added: "We thank the Petrochemical Special Economic Zone Organization for hosting us for opening and settling our office in this area."

He said: "I hope that by settling our office officially, we can respond to issues related to knowledge-based and technology companies as soon as possible and be helpful to our young scientists."

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