Corrected: Arya Sasol targets full start up for Q3

17 July 2007 09:18  [Source: ICIS news]

Correction: In the ICIS news story headlined "Arya Sasol targets full start up for third quarter" dated 13 July 2007, please read in the third paragraph… low density polyethylene (LDPE) plant and a medium density PE (MDPE)/high density PE (HPDE) swing plant… instead of LDPE, linear low density (LLDPE), MDPE/HPDE swing plants… A corrected story follows.

SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--Iran’s newest joint-venture cracker run by state-owned National Petrochemical Co (NPC) and South Africa’s chemicals giant Sasol, Arya Sasol, is on track to start commercial production by the end of the third quarter with commissioning work expected to begin by the end of this month, a source close to the operator said on Friday.

"Before the end of Q3 the plant will be in service," he said, pointing towards "very clean" pre-commissioning works at the country’s newest ethane-based cracker, also known as the No 9, which has 1m tonnes/year of ethylene capacity.

Most of the ethylene produced will be fed into downstream a low density polyethylene (LDPE) plant and a medium density PE (MDPE)/high density PE (HPDE) swing plant, both with 300,000 tonnes/year capacity.

This will be the first ethylene plant to start operating in the new Assaluyeh mega-petrochemical complex located in southwestern Iran and which comprises several world-scale plants.

The next cracker in line to start up at the complex will be Jam Petrochemical later this year, with a capacity of 1.32m tonnes/year of ethylene.

New projects in Iran have been plagued by delays in the past few years due to shortages of funds and skilled manpower.

By: Steve Tan
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