Shell Nanhai BV reports successful start of ops in Guangdong
03 Apr '06
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The project incorporates some of the world's most advanced technologies and uses modern management systems and international standards in the design, construction and operation of the complex.
The complex is in the Donglian area, Daya Bay Economic and Technological Development Zone, Huizhou Municipality in Guangdong Province, on the north coast of Daya Bay, some 80 km northeast of Hong Kong Island. It covers 2.5 square kilometres.
The condensate or naphtha feedstock imports for the project are received on a berth next to Mabianzhou Island, and transferred to the petrochemicals complex by an 11-kilometre, undersea pipeline.
The plant is an integrated chemical complex including steam and electricity generation and other utility provisions, storage and handling and shipping facilities, as well as effluent treatment and environmental protection facilities. Many of the production facilities are world scale and all have been designed to international standards.
The heart of the complex is a world-scale cracker producing 800,000 tpa ethylene and 430,000 tpa propylene. It is designed to take naphtha as well as heavy feedstock such as condensate, the first of its kind in China. Downstream of the cracker, the following plants and facilities are:
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