PetroChina to use LyondellBasell tech for PP plant

18 January 2008 14:02  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (ICIS news)--LyondellBasell will provide the process technology for a new 300,000 tonne/year polypropylene (PP) plant for PetroChina's Daqing Refinery and Chemical Company, the chemical major said on Friday.

 

The new plant will be built at Daqing in Heilongjiang province and start-up is expected in 2010, the company said.

 

“This is PetroChina’s ninth polyolefin licence from LyondellBasell in this decade,” the company added in a statement.

 

The Daqing plant will be the 11th to be built worldwide using the former Basell's Spherizone technology, the statement added.

 

No financial details were disclosed.

By: Lucy Craymer
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