Iran exported 2.8 million mt of petrochemicals in the first two months of the Iranian calendar year (beginning March 23), official news agency IRNA reported Thursday.
Quoting Abdolhossein Bayat, the country's deputy petroleum minister and president of Iran's National Petrochemical Company, IRNA said the petrochemical exports were worth $2 billion.
The total value of Iran's petrochemical exports is expected to reach $14 billion by the end of the current Iranian year to March 21, IRNA quoted Bayat as saying. Iran produced over 40 million mt of petrochemicals in last calender year through March 2011, of which 18 million mt worth $11.6 billion were exported, IRNA said.
