New projects, December 31, 2007-January 8, 2008

New projects reported by ICIS news

14 January 2008 00:00  [Source: ICB]

 

Company	Product	Capacity	Process	Contractor	Cost	Start-up	Status
Daqing Petrochemical
Daqing, Heilongjiang, China	ethylene	600,000	-	-	$1.9bn	2010	U
	benzene, toluene and mixed xylenes (BTX)	400,000	-	-	-	-	P
	polypropylene (PP)	300,000	-	-	-	-	P
	polyethylene (PE)	550,000 (combined capacity of two units)	-	-	-	-	P
Formosa Chemicals & Fibre
Loong-der, Ilan, Taiwan	purified terephthalic acid (PTA)-purified isophthalic acid (PIA)	400,000	-	-	-	June 2008	D
Hindustan Organic Chemicals Ltd.
Rasayani, India	chemicals	-	-	-	-	-	S
Kemira
Pori, Finland	titanium dioxide	(x)30,000 150,000T	-	-	-	-	P
Mehr Petrochemical
Assaluyeh, Iran	high density polyethylene (HDPE)	300,000	-	-	-	September 2008-March 2009	P
Mudra Lifestyle Ltd.
Himachel Pradesh or Uttrakhand, India	spandex yarn	3,000	-	-	$76m	2010	P
Office Cherifien des Phosphates Petrokimia Gresik
Morocco	phosphoric acid	-	-	-	-	-	S
Indonesia	ammonia/fertilizer	-	-	-	-	-	S
PetroRabigh
Rabigh, Saudi Arabia	monoethylene glycol (MEG)	700,000	-	-	-	October	D
Saudi Advanced Polypropylene Co.
Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia	PP	450,000	Novolen	-	$810m	Q1 2008	U
Sinopec Sichuan Vinylon Works
Chongqing, Sichuan, China	vinyl acetate monomer (VAM)	(x)100% 600,000T	-	-	-	late 2009	P
	polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)	expansion of 60,000 unit	-	-	-	-	S
	vinyl acetate ethylene (VAE)	-	-	-	-	-	S
Unnamed Japanese company
Doumyat, Egypt	ethylene	-	-	-	$2.5bn	-	S
Unnamed Kuwaiti company
Doumyat, Egypt	ethylene	-	-	-	-	-	S
UPC Technology Corp.
Jiangsu, China	phthalic anhydride (PA)	60,000	-	-	-	H1 2009	P
	plasticizers, mainly dioctyl ­phthalate (DOP)	120,000	-	-	-	end 2008	P
Zhenjiang Union Chemical
Zhenjiang, China	plasticizers	120,000	-	-	-	Q1 2008	P

Notes: *Capacity: figures given in tonnes/year tonnes/day are converted by multiplying by 330. (x) = expansion T = total capacity including expansion.

Start-up: Dates given are for planned start-up. H1 = 1st half year H2 = 2nd half year Q1 = 1st quarter Q2 = 2nd quarter Q3 = 3rd quarter Q4 = 4th quarter.

Status: S = study P = planned A = approval E = engineering U = under construction C = completed D = delayed.

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