Final Phase of 1,200 km Ethylene Pipeline Completed

The project to connect Tabriz Petrochemical Company to the West Ethylene Pipeline was officially inaugurated on Thursday in the last and final phase of the major pipeline. 
This pipeline is 1,200 kilometers long and runs from the port city of Asalouyeh off the Persian Gulf in the south to the northwest. It will supply ethylene as feedstock to 12 petrochemical factories along the way. The northernmost plant on the pipeline route that was supplied before the Tabriz unit was Miandoab Petrochemical Company in West Azarbaijan Province.
With completion of the 165-km pipeline to carry ethylene from Miandoab company to Tabriz Petrochemical Plant in East Azarbaijan Province, the pipeline has reached its final destination so far (Tabriz is  165 km north of Miandoab), the Oil Ministry news agency Shana reported.