Chevron Phillips plans Al-Jubail styrene start-up
28 June 2007 13:46 [Source: ICIS news]
SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--Global aromatics producer Chevron Phillips will start trial runs at the new styrene monomer (SM) plant at Al-Jubail by the end of 2007 or early 2008, a company official said on Thursday.
The new plant called Jubail Chevron Phillips will produce more than 700,000 tonnes/year of SM and would have an expanded capacity of feedstock benzene 60% above current levels of 520,000 tonnes/year, the source added.
The official, speaking on the sidelines of the Third Asian Aromatics and Derivatives Conference in Singapore, declined to be named.
Trail runs commenced at the expanded benzene plant this month, he said.
The debottlenecking process of the benzene plant commenced during a turnaround that started in the first quarter this year, he said. The plant draws its naphtha via a pipeline from Saudi Aramco, and also produces dilute toluene and cyclohexane.
Production from the new SM plant would be partly channelled into downstream polystyrene (PS) production and would be exported to existing and new customers in the Gulf, he added.
The two-day ICIS conference runs from 28-29 June.
By: Mahua Chakravarty
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