QAPCO eyes Ras Laffan cracker start-up in end-2009
19 March 2009 02:04 [Source: ICIS news]
SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--Qatar Petrochemical Co (QAPCO) plans to start up its 1.3m tonne/year Ras Laffan ethane cracker by the end of the year, a top company official said late on Wednesday.
“This (the cracker) will be ready by no later than end of this year,” said QAPCO general manager Mohamed Yousef Al-Mulla.
QAPCO told ICIS news in December 2008 that the completion of the facility would be pushed back to the second-half of 2009 due to adjustments in the construction schedule.
The company currently runs another 720,000 tonne/year cracker in
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