No Casualty After Fire at PC Plant in Southern Iran

Bushehr, Dec 25,- The Managing Director of Pars Special Economic Energy Zone Mehdi Yousefi said firefighters have contained the blaze at a petrochemical plant in this southern Iranian province on Sunday.
He underscored that the fire erupted at early hours of day in phases 20 and 21 of South Pars gas field due to leakage from a demethanizer tower.

He said the incident sustained no casualties, stressing that the firefighters have the blaze under control.

Source : IRNA

ABOUT Pars Special Economic Energy Zone : 

Establishment
Pars Special Economic Energy Zone (PSEEZ) was established in ‎‏1998‏‎ for the utilization of South ‎Pars oil and gas resources and encouraging commercial activities in the field of oil, gas and ‎petrochemical industries.‎

Objectives
Facilitating for the on-time execution of various oil and gas projects, providing the appropriate ‎foundation to attract local and foreign partnership with the aim of developing oil, gas and ‎petrochemical industries as well as inter-related and downstream industries, creating local job ‎opportunities and attracting skilled and semi-skilled workforce from neighboring provinces with ‎regards to its positive effects on economic prosperity in the provinces of Bushehr, Fars and ‎Hormozgan.‎

Location
This zone is located the Persian Gulf coast and ‎‏300‏‎ Km. East of Port of Bushehr and ‎‏570‏‎ Km. ‎West of the Port of Bandar Abbas and approximately ‎‏100‏‎ Km. away from the South Pars Gas ‎Field (Continuation of the Qatar’s Northern Dome).‎

Macro Grouping of Facilities and Services
• Central administrative and support: Central Local office, Industrial affairs, Infrastructural ‎services, Customs. Employment office, Social Welfare office, Visa, …‎
• Office and service centers: Banks head office, Post office, Police station, Driving & ‎Vehicle licensing office, Property registrar office, …‎
• Sports and recreational centers: Multi-Purpose gymnasium, enclosed swimming pools, ‎Open grounds sports, Water sports, sailors club, …‎
• Hygiene and medical centers: First aids emergency services, Polyclinic, General Hospital ‎for daily operations, Drugstore, …‎
• Technical and vocational training centers: Special oil, Gas & Petrochemical institute, ‎Research center, Applied university faculty, Library & Documents center, …‎
• Religion, arts and cultural centers: Multi-Functional assembly halls, Exposition hall, ‎chapel (Praying house) , …‎
• Fair and commercial centers: Central & Specialty fair complex, Trade center & Stock ‎exchange, Satellite information center …‎
• Residential / Guest house center: Guest House, First & Second class & International ‎hotels, Hotel apartment, …‎
• Welfare center: Restaurants, Central kitchen, Coffee shop, supermarket, Bakery, ‎Sanitary services, …‎
• Technical services: Consulting engineering & Contracting services, support & ‎procurement affairs, Transportation companies , … ‎
• Landscaping and parks: Public parks, Coastal & Roadside green spaces, Forestation, ‎Plant nursery, Environmental Protection, …‎
• Transport : Terminals, Car parks, Coastal & Roadside green spaces, Forestation, Plant ‎nursery, Environmental protection, …‎
• Infrastructural facilities: Port complex, Power plant, Electrical main & sub station, ‎Desalination plant, Water & Fuel tanks, Gas station, Telecommunications, Sewage ‎treatment plant, …‎
• Mobilization workshop: Consultants & Contractors camps, construction period sites, ‎Construction period warehouses, Construction period workshop, Construction material ‎depots, …‎
• Warehousing: Transit and industrial warehouses (Enclosed, Covered, Open) for bulks & ‎Pallets, Liquids tanks, Cold storage, … ‎
• Urban furniture: Propylaeum, Street lights, Traffic & Advertising signs, Telephone ‎kiosks, Transport stations, Site beautification, … ‎

Employed population & Workforce utilization
For the ‎‏10,000‏‎ hectares of developmental lands (‎‏6000‏‎ hectares industrial lands), based on an ‎average of ‎‏5‏‎ industrially employed persons )oil & gas industries, petrochemical downstream, ‎semi-heavy and mixed industries), there shall be ‎‏30,000‏‎ industrially employed persons, and the ‎same of employed in related services are forecasted at the project (total ‎‏60,000‏‎ persons inside the ‎zone during the development period).‎
• All employed issues shall be according to the client-laborer contracts.‎
• Laborer regulations at zone are based on “ILO” recommendations.