Nippon Oil set to sell PGP from new splitter

20 July 2007 08:27  [Source: ICIS news]

SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--Japan’s Nippon Oil Corp will start delivering polymer grade propylene (PGP) from November onwards from its new 100,000 tonne/year propylene splitter, a month after it starts up, a company source said on Friday. 

 

All of the PGP output from the new splitter, located within the company’s Sendai refinery, would be sold on a 100% contract basis in northeast Asia from early November onwards, he said, adding it would be delivered by a 1,500 tonne pressurised vessel.

 

Currently, tanks at the Sendai refinery are used to store refinery grade propylene (RGP) and as no new tanks will be built for PGP within the facility, it would have to clear some of the existing containers and change the inventory to PGP, he said, adding this process would take about a month.

 

The new facility will raise Nippon Oil’s total polymer grade propylene production capacity to 780,000 tonnes/year. It also has a production capacity of 110,000 tonnes/year of refinery grade propylene.

By: Gina Myung
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