EghtesadOnline: As part of a drive to protect the environment and curb air pollution in the fossil fuel industry, petrochemical complexes and refining industries are being equipped with online pollution control systems, director of the Comprehensive Monitoring Office at the Department of Environment said.

EghtesadOnline: Three major Iranian petrochemical plants will become operational in the current fiscal year that ends in March 2018, managing director of the National Petrochemical Company said.

EghtesadOnline: An initiative is underway to collect carbon dioxide emissions in petrochemical plants in the southern port city of Mahshahr, Iran's second largest petrochemical hub in Khuzestan Province.

EghtesadOnline: Iran's northern regions straddling the Caspian Sea could emerge as new hot spots for petrochemical production, Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said on Tuesday, signaling the government's intention to diversify and expand the key petrochem sector now largely concentrated in the south.