Iran to export refinery engineering services

For the first time, the Research Institute of Petroleum Industry will be exporting the engineering and design services of nine Iranian refinery units.

Amir Abbas Hosseini, Deputy CEO of RIPI’s Technology and International Relations, said that this is the first time they will be exporting services so that a foreign country’s refinery will be built by Iranian design.

RIPI said that it was chosen by an Italian company as a project manager. The value of the agreement so far amounts to about US$5 million, US$4m of which are allocated to engineering value and the rest to the technological knowledge of the project,” said Hosseini to the MEHR News agency.

“The agreement will pave the way for other activities,” said Hosseini, adding “the RIPI has held constructive negotiations with its partners and we are hoping good engineering services will be provided in these countries,” he said to the MEHR News agency

According to Hosseini, under the agreement, the IRIP will implement a number of projects including reduction of viscosity, hydrogen purification for gas and oil, gasoline unit (Naphtha Reforming), sour water stripping, LNG Recycling Unit, Sulfur Recycling Unit, and bitumen production from residual oil.