CNOOC-Kings aromatic starts up, on-spec output achieved

18 June 2009 09:18  [Source: ICIS news]

SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--The joint-venture aromatics project between China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) and Kings Group in China has seen on-spec production this week after it started up early this month as originally scheduled, a company source said Thursday. 

“We already sold paraxylene (PX) to some of our customers, and are talking to other potential ones,” said the source. 

The complex at Huizhou in south China has a nameplate capacity of 800,000 tonnes/year of PX and 105,000 tonnes/year of benzene. It is located to a new refinery that started operations in late April.

Feedstocks from the refinery would be used in the aromatics complex.

“We took a record short time to achieve on-spec production; the whole process from feedstock deposit to on-spec production took around five weeks,” said the source, counting from the time the refinery started producing pyrolysis gas that is fed into aromatics the aromatics plant.

The usual process takes months to complete, he said.

The project is 80% owned by the state-affiliated CNOOC while the remaining 20% is held by Zhejiang-based conglomerate Kings Group.

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