China’s Fushun plans refinery start-up in Sept

09 July 2008 11:26  [Source: ICIS news]

SHANGHAI (ICIS news)--China-based Fushun Petrochemical plans to start up its 8m tonne/year refinery in the northeastern province of Liaoning in September this year, a source from its parent company PetroChina said on Wednesday.

The refinery would form part of a yuan (CNY)16.45bn ($2.4bn) petrochemical complex that would include an 800,000 tonne/year cracker, construction on which began in August 2006.

The company expected to start up the cracker and its downstream units in June 2010 as scheduled.

Fushun Petrochemical, which operates a 148,000 tonne/year cracker at Fushun, would be the largest refinery-petrochemical operator in northeast China once the project was completed, the source said.

ICIS news had earlier reported that the Fushun complex would include a 400,000 tonne/year benzene, toluene and mixed xylenes (BTX) line, a 120,000 tonne/year butadiene extraction unit, a 350,000 tonne/year high density polyethylene (HDPE) line, a 450,000 tonne/year linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) unit, a 300,000 tonne/year polypropylene (PP) unit, and a 200,000 tonne/year styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) unit.

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