TEHRAN (NIPNA) – Iran has held the first edition of the Iranian Petroleum and Energy Club 2015 Congress and Exhibition (IPEC 2015) only one day after formal announcement of sanctions end by the EU and US.

TEHRAN (NIPNA) -- Persian Gulf Holding Company has financed Hengam and Ven-Iran petrochemical projects which were formerly supposed to be bankrolled by Chinese investors, a PGHC official said.

TEHRAN (NIPNA) -- Persian Gulf Holding Company (PGHC) is operating 10 petrochemical projects across the country which, once fully operational, will add 50 million tons of petrochemical to the firm's annual production capacity, the PGHC head said.

TEHRAN (NIPNA) -- Head of Iran's National Petrochemical Company (NPC) said the country's petrochemical industry is prepared to form joint ventures with Korean companies in the post-sanction period.

TEHRAN (NIPNA) -- Petrochemical companies from South Korea have voiced their readiness to return to Iran's petrochemical sector once western sanctions on Tehran are removed.