Mokran Petrochem Complex Development Underway

In line with efforts to establish the largest petrochemical hub in Chabahar in southern Iran, the construction of five gas to fuel and chemical production units —aka GTX—in Mokran Petrochemical Complex is underway, Negin Mokran Development Petrochemical Company"s managing director said.
"The GTX unit in Badr-e-Shargh Petrochemical Complex in Mokran has registered a work-in-progress rate of 25% and the necessary equipment is being carried to the site," Mohammad Reza Movasaqinia was also quoted as saying by NIPNA, the National Petrochemical Company's news agency. 
According to the official, GTX units are completed in three stages, the first of which is converting natural gas to methanol which is used as feedstock in the second stage whose product is olefins. In the last stage, olefins and aromatics are used as feedstock in downstream industries.