Final UN annex links petrochemical exposure to Persian Gulf industrial geography

The mission was informed that refinery weight losses approached 0.5 percent and judged this unsatisfactory. The annex treated these losses as a performance concern rather than assuming restored output...

From limited data, refinery fuel consumption appeared above average to the mission. It observed little energy-conservation equipment and connected this shortcoming with binding financial constraints.

The mission considered Iran’s refinery light-oil to heavy-oil ratio too low while gasoline, kerosene and diesel were imported at high cost. It recommended reexamining refinery configurations, rather...

Planned capacity expansion, gasoline lead reduction and additional lubricating-oil production were normal industry-development projects, the mission stated. It excluded them from its accounting of...

Partly built refineries at Bandar Abbas and Arak were on hold because of capital shortages. The annex recorded planned completion in 1994 and 1997 respectively; these were projections made in 1991,...

For several years in the middle of the war, production at all chemical plants was virtually halted, the annex stated. It described a period of severe sector-wide interruption, without supplying...

The annex’s production history indicated losses on the order of 30 million tonnes of petrochemical products over eight years. This was a cumulative output-loss estimate, not a count of destroyed...

Table B.3 reported refinery reconstruction expenditure of 8,646 million rials and $162 million during the war, followed by 10,388 million rials and $195 million after the ceasefire. The figures...

Table B.4 reported petrochemical reconstruction expenditure of 15,535 million rials and $291 million during the war, then 33,315 million rials and $624 million after the ceasefire. Monetary...

The mission used an oil-industry rule of thumb of $10,000 per barrel per day of capacity for replacing large plants. Its roughly $5 billion downstream rebuilding estimate was a coarse cross-check, not...