INTRODUCTION

Farsa Chimie Company (FCC) as a large scale manufacturer of Ethylene Glycols (EG) mainly Mono Ethylene Glycol (MEG), a starting material essentially for production of Poly Ethylene Terephthalate (PET) polyester and for antifreeze formulation put into operation in Dec 2007.
Currently, FCC plant is under operation in an area of 11 hectares at Jam Petrochemical Complex which is located in Assaluyeh on coastline of Persian Gulf. The company by making use of advanced technology is designed to produce annually 400 Kt/y Mono Ethylene Glycol (MEG), 40 Kt/y Di Ethylene Glycol (DEG), 2.8 Kt/y Tri Ethylene Glycol (TEG) to meet the growing global demand and export to international markets. The primary design case is based on production of MEG as the main product and DEG and TEG as by-products. In addition, the plant is designed for purification of 50 Kt/y HP Ethylene Oxide (EO) as a future project and also is capable to recycle part of DEG to the glycol reaction in order to increase the TEG production.

Jam Petrochemical Complex (JPC) is responsible for implementing of the 10th olefin project in an area of 77 hectares which more than 40 hectares has been reclaimed from the sea. This company will be one of country’s largest olefin plants with the final production capacity of 1,320 Kt/y including HDPE, LDPE, BD, PP and alpha olefin.

The MEG plant is located at Jam Petrochemical Complex but it has been owned totally by Farsa Chimie Company (private sector) since March 2004.

Moreover, the required ethane-based ethylene feedstock of MEG Plant is supplied by Jam petrochemical and Arya Sasol olefin Plants.

HISTORY

The board of directors of FCC has long lasting experience in textile industries as “Farsa Industrial Group” and has a unique position among high quality machine-made carpet and yarns producers. It is standard of workmanship by achieving higher records of quality during years and has managed to produce consistent and excellent products.


PARS SPECIAL ECONOMIC ENERGY ZONE (PSEEZ)

FCC's MEG manufacturing plant is located in PSEEZ. (Pars Special Economic Energy Zone) which also is called Assaluyeh, covering an area of 10,000 hectares is located on east of Bushehr province on coastline of the Persian Gulf.

It is 100 kilometer from the offshore south Pars gas field, the Iran – Qatar joint offshore borderline in the Persian Gulf. Iran holds the second largest gas reserves in the world and approximately 60% of Iranian gas deposits are located in the south Pars gas field.
The availability of rich gas reserves and easy access to international waters and markets in south of Persian Gulf provide a safe and cost effective basis for investment in the petrochemical industry development to increase the country’s non-oil material exports as well as creating long term economic benefits.
In addition, sustainable development of petrochemical industry plays an important role in generating foreign currency as well as creating wide variety of job opportunities.
Being a rich natural gas field close to Pars Special Economic Energy Zone (Assaluyeh) as well as easy access to energy at competitive price bring Assaluyeh as an attractive site for implementing of gas processing projects to supply natural gas as a cost effective feedstock for the petrochemical industries and to meet the required domestic gas consumption and to export as well.

Moreover, the accessibility of inexpensive natural gas reserves, a feedstock for manufacture of low cost basic chemicals, makes Assaluyeh a particularly special situation for production of high value added downstream chemicals.