SEPC crosses one-year mark with significant milestones
01 Nov '07
3 min read
Dick Wynberg, project director of SEPC, expressed his satisfaction with the project's overall progress: "We are constructing this project in the midst of a busy time in Singapore, which brings with it challenges in securing resources and equipment.
We are very happy to have committed contracts to a large cross-section of more than 50 companies in Singapore, many of which we consider to be among the best construction and services companies here.
On the whole, we have been pleased with the quality of work that is being delivered, and will continue to focus on safety and quality. We look forward to tackling the challenges ahead together."
Piling on the Jurong-side of the construction project will near completion by end November 2007, and main structures will start to be assembled - similar achievements will follow on the ethylene cracker site.
On mainland Singapore, the West Coast Ferry Terminal has been re-commissioned as part of logistics requirements to ferry workers smoothly to Bukom island.
Pieter Eijsberg added: "Shell remains deeply committed to Singapore. We are working hard to make this project the project-of-choice here, and will take necessary actions to ensure productivity can be maximised.
Together with our contractors, we aim to make the SEPC project a resounding success for Shell and for Singapore."
The SEPC project represents a significant step in Shell's commitment to delivering a profitable downstream business. The Shell Group is committed to growing chemicals investments in the Asia-Pacific and Middle-East regions, in line with its strategy to grow where the market is growing.
When complete, the facility will include a new world-scale 800,000 tonnes per annum ethylene cracker on Pulau Bukom and a 750,000 tonnes per annum mono-ethylene glycol plant on Jurong Island using Shell's proprietary technology.
The project scope also includes modifications and additions to the Bukom refinery, as well as a butadiene extraction unit on Pulau Bukom with an initial capacity of 155 kilo tonnes per annum.
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