Final UN annex separates wartime and post-ceasefire petrochemical rebuilding expenditure

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,...

Most petrochemical facilities lay along the northern Persian Gulf shore, putting them within easy range of aerial attack. The annex identified this industrial geography as a reason the sector was...

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...

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...

The annex warned of a sharply nonlinear replacement-cost curve for plants below 100,000 barrels per day. Its large-plant capacity benchmark therefore could not be applied uniformly to every refinery...

The mission converted the reported rial component at 300 rials per dollar in 1990 prices, obtaining about $729 million. Adding $4,098 million in foreign-exchange needs gave about $4,827 million,...

Iran’s single-track railway network grew from 4,570 kilometres in 1980 to 4,834 in 1988, the annex reported. Annual passengers rose from five million to 6.8 million; national growth coexisted with...

Iranian Railways carried 5.7 million tonnes of freight in 1980 and 12.5 million in 1988, the annex reported. Growth in national traffic did not establish that war-damaged lines and stations had...