India’s Dahej SEZ solicits polymer processing plans

19 July 2007 16:22  [Source: ICIS news]

NEW DELHI (ICIS news)--India’s Dahej SEZ Limited (DSL) started soliciting on Thursday expressions of interest from companies interested in setting polymer processing units (PPUs) within the Gujarat special economic zone (SEZ) at Dahej.

The PPUs would get requisite volumes of different commodity polymers from a dual-feed olefins complex at Dahej SEZ being promoted by a joint venture of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) named ONGC Petro-additions Limited (OPaL).

The cracker is slated to have capacity to produce 1.1m tonnes/year of ethylene, 340,000 tonnes/year of propylene, 225,000 tonnes/year of butadiene, 135,000 tonnes/year of benzene, 35,000 tonnes/year of butene-1, 160,000 tonnes/year of styrene, 75,000 tonnes/year of carbon black feedstock, 19,000 tonnes/year of C6 raffinate and 135,000 tonnes/year of pyrolysis gasoline.

The olefins complex downstream product slate would be 140,000 tonnes/year of styrene butadiene rubber (SBR), 300,000 tonnes/year of high density polyethylene (HDPE), 720,000 tonnes/year across two swing units of HDPE/linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) and 340,000 tonnes/year of polypropylene.

The complex would also sell part of its styrene output to prospective downstream units with SEZ or elsewhere, according to ONGC.

Expressions of interests are requested to be submitted within 15 days.

DSL is a joint venture of ONGC with 23% and Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) with 26%, with the balance of 51% earmarked for strategic investors.

By: Naresh Minocha
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