Ethylene, propylene, MEG producing project launched
20 Mar '06
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Rabigh Refinary
When completed in late 2008, the PETRORabigh project will be one of the largest integrated refining and petrochemical projects ever built at one time. A total of 2.4 million tons of petrochemical solids and liquids, along with large volumes of gasoline and other refined products, will be produced.
Through this joint venture, Sumitomo Chemical, a major producer of polyolefins, will secure a reliable and stable supply of feedstock to strengthen its medium- and long-term competitiveness. The project will, therefore, open a new stage in Sumitomo Chemical's worldwide business strategy.
Sumitomo Chemical will provide its extensive and proprietary petrochemical technology and marketing base to the venture.
The plans for the project include, as the centerpiece of the expanded site, a high olefins yield fluid catalytic cracker complex integrated with a world scale, ethane based cracker, producing approximately 1.3 million tons per year of ethylene, 900,000 tons per year of propylene, and 60,000 barrels per day of gasoline as well as other refined products.
Downstream petrochemical units are to be included to convert all of the olefin production to downstream products.
The following olefin derivative units are included in the project configuration: 1 Sumitomo's proprietary Easy Processing Polyethylene (EPPE) unit 2 An LLDPE unit 3 An HDPE unit 4 Two polypropylene units, producing a full range of polypropylene polymers - homopolymer, block copolymer, random and terpolymer 5 A propylene oxide unit utilizing Sumitomo's proprietary technology 6 A Mono-Ethylene Glycol (MEG) unit 7 A Butene-1 unit
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