Shell OKs Bukom butadiene scheme

16 April 2007 00:00  [Source: ICB]

SHELL Eastern Petroleum has decided to proceed with a butadiene (BD) extraction project on Bukom Island, Singapore.

The project will have an initial capacity of 155,000 tonnes/year, and will form part of the Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex (SEPC), which is expected to start up in 2009/2010.

"As an integral part of SEPC, it will help us meet the demands of the region's fast-growing petrochemical industry," SEPC general manager Pieter Eijsberg said.

A large part of the BD output has been contracted to customers, and discussions are in progress with a number of potential customers for raffinate-1, Shell said.

The plant will have a target capacity of 175,000 tonnes/year, a company spokesman added.

The SEPC project centres on an 800,000 tonne/year ethylene cracker on Bukom Island. It will also include a 750,000 tonne/year monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant on Jurong Island.

The cracker will supply cracker products to the new MEG plant, planned and existing joint-venture derivatives plants, and customers on Jurong Island via undersea pipelines.

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