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The mass balance has been developed for the main processes, some downstream processes not yet covered. 


#polyethylene  #lldpe  #hdpe  #ldpe   #propyleneoxide  #raffinate  #butadiene  #ethylene  #steamcracking 

Description of 1,3-butadiene has been updated.


#mixedc4  #butadiene  #13butadiene  #steamcracking  #raffinate 

1,2-butadiene has been added.


#mixedc4  #butadiene  #12butadiene  #steamcracking  #raffinate 

SP Chemical completed the first gas-based cracker in Taixing, China, in 2019, producing 780,000 tpa ethylene and 150,000 tpa propylene.

February 7, 2025 | SINGAPORE (Reuters)

Despite growing trade tensions between Washington and Beijing, China's ethane imports from the United States are expected to rise significantly in 2025 as petrochemical producers seek cheaper feedstock alternatives. Major Chinese companies are investing over $16 billion in infrastructure improvements to accommodate this growth.

Industry analysts forecast China's ethane imports to reach between 6.3 million and 8.2 million metric tons in 2025, representing an increase of 9% to 34%. The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects its net ethane exports to rise 6% to 520,000 barrels per day, with China expected to absorb most of this increase.

However, two main factors currently constrain this trade growth: limited U.S. export capacity and a shortage of specialized tankers. To address these limitations, U.S. pipeline operators Energy Transfer and Enterprise Products Partners are expanding their terminal capacities.

China has also demonstrated its commitment to increasing ethane imports by reducing its import tariff to 1% in 2025, down from 2% in 2024. Enterprise CEO Jim Teague remains optimistic about the trade relationship, noting that Chinese dependence on imported propane and ethane should protect this segment from broader trade tensions.

#ethane  #china  #imports  #usa  #feedstock  #refining  #refinery  #steamcracking  #gascracker  #propane  #ethyleneplant 

CNOOC Shell Huizhou Petrochemical Complex in Daha Bay, Huizhou, China

January 15, 2015 | BEIJING | Shell China

CNOOC Shell Petrochemicals Limited (CNOOC Shell), a joint venture between Shell Nanhai Private Limited and CNOOC Petrochemical Investment Co., Ltd., has made the final investment decision to expand its petrochemical complex at Daya Bay, Huizhou, southern China.

The project will include the construction of a third ethylene cracker with a planned annual capacity of 1.6 million tons, a key component in the production of plastics, as well as a series of downstream derivative units, including linear alpha olefins.

The investment will also build a new facility for the production of high-performance specialty chemicals such as polycarbonates and carbonate solvents that are essential to everyday life.

Linear alpha olefins can be used to produce detergent alcohols and synthetic lubricant base stocks. Polycarbonates can be used to make impact-resistant plastics, replacing carbon-intensive steel, while carbonate solvents are used in lithium batteries, which are crucial for the electric vehicle sector and energy storage.

Designed primarily to meet China’s domestic demand, the new facility will produce a wide range of chemicals used in the agriculture, industry, construction, healthcare and consumer goods sectors.

The investment will enhance CNOOC Shell’s competitiveness by expanding its product value chain, promoting its further integration with existing chemical plants, and promoting its development of stronger innovation capabilities to meet the rapidly growing customer needs in the Chinese market.

"For more than two decades, CNOOC Shell has been providing high-quality products to the Chinese market and has become one of the largest Sino-foreign petrochemical joint ventures in China," said Huibert Vigeveno, Director of Downstream and Renewables Business of Shell Group.

“This new investment is a key enabler for CNOOC Shell’s strategic transformation towards higher-end and differentiated chemicals. It is consistent with Shell Chemicals & Refining’s strategy of pursuing targeted business growth in strong regions. It is also a testament to our strong partnership with CNOOC.”

The expansion is expected to be completed in 2028.


#olefins  #ethylene  #propylene  #butenes  #steamcracking  #olefinplant  #linearalphaolefins  #lao  #polycarbonate  #shell  #cnooc  #jointventure  #china  #refining 

Dec 16, 2024 | Phillips 66 News Release

Two world-scale joint venture projects being developed by Chevron Phillips Chemical Company (CPChem) and QatarEnergy remain on track to start operations in 2026, Phillips 66 said on Monday. Phillips 66 and Chevron hold equal stakes in Chevron Phillips Chemical.

The US project is Golden Triangle Polymers, an integrated polyethylene (PE) complex in Orange, Texas. Chevron Phillips holds a 51% stake, and construction started in 2023.

The Qatari project in Ras Laffan is another integrated PE project. It is a 70:30 joint venture between QatarEnergy and CP Chem. Construction on this project started in 2024.

Remarquably, these two ethane crackers employing Technip tecnology will be the world's two largest, producing each above 2 Mt/a of ethylene when they are starting up, and each of the two CPChem MarTECH Single Loop polymerization plants also the world's largest with an output of 1 Mt/a of HDPE each at Golden Triangle and 850 Kt/a each at Ras Laffan.


#phillips  #chevron  #qatarenergy  #cpchem  #technip  #martech  #slurryloop  #ethylene  #polyethylene  #raslaffan  #goldentriangle  #steamcracking 

Yangzi-BASF Light Hydrocarbon Comprehensive Utilization Project with 1 million tonnes steam cracker begins construction, receives environmental impact assessment.

7th Sep 2024 | Source: DT New Materials, via Sohu.com

Yangzi-BASF Light Hydrocarbon Comprehensive Utilization Project

On August 30, 2024, the Yangzi-BASF Light Hydrocarbon Comprehensive Utilization Project officially began construction. The project investment is approximately 9.142 billion yuan, with downstream new materials projects totaling about 25.652 billion yuan. The project
includes construction of three process units and supporting facilities:

° One 1 million tons/year ethylene steam cracking unit
° One 500,000 tons/year gasoline hydrogenation unit
° One 620,000 tons/year aromatics extraction unit

The project is constructed and operated by Nanjing Yangzi-BASF Olefins Co., Ltd., which was newly established on October 24, 2023. The company was formed as a 50-50 joint venture between Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Company Limited and BASF-YPC Company Limited.


15th Nov 2023 16:25 | Petrochemical Federation Chemical New Materials Committee | via WeChat.

With a total investment of over 10.3 billion yuan, Nanjing Yangzi-BASF Olefins Co., Ltd. will build a 1 million tons/year steam cracking ethylene plant

On November 13, 2023, the Jiangsu Environmental Protection Public Network released the second public announcement of the environmental impact assessment of the light hydrocarbon comprehensive utilization project of Nanjing Yangzi BASF Olefin Co., Ltd. and put forward suggestions and opinions on the project construction content to all sectors of society.

° Construction unit: Nanjing Yangzi-Yanba Olefins Co., Ltd.
° Project name: Light hydrocarbon comprehensive utilization project
° Construction location: The project area is located in the inspection and safety area of Yangzi Petrochemical; the product tank area is located in the Henghai area of Yangzi Petrochemical; the flare is arranged in the BASF-YPC-Yunnan land.
° Project type: Greenfield project.
° Total investment: 1,030,513 million yuan, with additional environmental protection investment of 262 million yuan;
° Land area: The total land area is 43.3 hectares (33 hectares for Jianan area and 10.3 hectares for Henghai area).
° Number of employees: The labor quota for this project is 207 people.
° Project Overview: The project includes a 1 million tons/year steam cracking ethylene production unit and 4 downstream chemical units; supporting public engineering systems include raw materials, intermediate raw materials, product tank farms, air compressor stations, circulating water fields, power supply systems, flare systems, etc.; and the transformation of existing facilities of Yangzi and BASF-YPC.

It is reported that Yangzi Petrochemical's existing "refinery structure adjustment project" will be completed and put into production before this project is put into production.

After the project is put into production, the refining sector of Yangzi Petrochemical will supply raw materials for the "ethylene cracking unit of this project" and "Yangzi Petrochemical's existing 800,000-ton ethylene cracking unit."

#basf  #ypc  #lighthydrocarbon  #petrochemical  #yangzi  #ethylene  #steamcracking  #gasoline  #aromatics 

7th Sep 2024 | Source: DT New Materials, via Sohu.com

The project is located in Gulei Petrochemical Base, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, and mainly builds 16 million tons/year oil refining project and 1.2 million tons/year ethylene project. The project is the leading project of Gulei Petrochemical Base, one of the seven major petrochemical industrial bases in China. The first phase of the project mainly includes 9 sets of chemical equipment such as ethylene cracking with an actual processing capacity of 1 million tons/year, with a total investment of 27.8 billion yuan and an annual output of one million tons of ethylene.

The second phase of the Gulei Refining and Chemical Project is jointly constructed by Sinopec Group and Fujian Province. It is planned to build more than 30 refining and chemical units, including 16 million tons/year of oil refining, 1.5 million tons/year of ethylene, 2 million tons/year of aromatics , as well as supporting facilities such as public works and berths at the Gulei Petrochemical Base. On July 16, the second phase of the project was approved by the Fujian Provincial Development and Reform Commission.

#gulei  #sinopec  #petrochemical  #refining  #ethylene  #steamcracking  #oilrefining  #crudeoil 

PetroChina Jilin Petrochemicals, manufacturing site have been added and mass balance initialized.

#steamcracking #ethylene  #polyethylene  #abs  #rubber  #crudeoil  #petrochina  #cnpc  #jilinpetrochemical 

Sinopec INEOS (Tianjin) Petrochemical Co., Ltd. and manufacturing site have been added.


#sinopec  #ineos  #tianjin  #petrochemical  #olefins  #steamcracking  #ethylene  #polyethylene  #polypropylene  #hdpe  #lldpe  #poe  #elastomers  #acrylonitriele  #butadiene  #pygas  #aromatics  #mtbe 

Petrochina Daqing Petrochemical has been created and its site's mass balance initialized.

#daqing #petrochina  #petrochemical  #massbalance  #refining  #crudeoil  #ethylene  #steamcracking  #heilongjiang 

Alterra closes investment round with the expectation to accelerate the commercialisation of its plastics pyrolysis technology

Investors Infinity Recycling, Chevron Phillips Chemical, LyondellBasell, and Neste, along with long-term support from Potenza Capital, have successfully closed their latest round of equity funding in Alterra Energy (formerly Vadxx Energy). This investment round is expected to accelerate the commercialization of Alterra’s plastics pyrolysis technology, designed to transform discarded plastic into valuable raw materials.

Alterra's advanced recycling technology has been modeled on ppPLUS and the mass balance of the company's demo plant in Akron has been created. One main product the technology is producing is plastics pyoil, which may be fractionnated to separate naphtha, which can be used as a feedstock returned to the cracker to produce ethylene among other products. The feedstock the technology is accepting is mostly clean polyolefin waste.

Source: Alterra, 22^nd Oct 2024 & portfolio planning PLUS.

#alterra  #lyondellbasell  #neste  #cpchem  #pyrolysis  #plasticwaste  #advancedrecycling  #molecularrecycling  #chemicalrecycling  #pyoil  #steamcracking  #naphtha  #ethylene  #polyethylene  

The mass balance of Guangdong Petrochemical has been initialized with identification of crude oil imports and the addition of two technologies: Huanqiu Steam Cracking and Grace's Unipol PP with their respective capacities.

#unipolpp  #steamcracking  #ethylene  #huanqiu  #guangdong  #petrochemical  #china  #refining

Huanqiu steam cracking technology has been added as a placeholder. Technology description needs to be developed.


#steamcracking  #petrochina  #cnpc  #steamcracking  #ethylene  #huanqiu 

Pyrolysis Fuel Oil (PFO) has been added.

#fueloil #steamcracking  #petroleumresidue  #ethyleneplant 

SINOPEC Steam Cracking Technology has been added.

#steamcracking  #ethyleneplant  #sinopec  #ethylene  #china 

Existing FS1 steam cracker technology was developed inhouse by DOW, and the existing three PE trains are Dow solution process according to the Path2NetZero map. Cracker capacity is estimated based on capacity expansion indications.

#dow  #solutionprocess  #polyethylene  #steamcracking  #canada  #fortsaskatchewan 

The site has one ethane cracker and its mass balance has been determined.

#steamcracking  #ethane  #ethylene  #dow  #nova 

Nova Chemicals Joffre site has been created.

#canada #joffre  #nova  #chemicals  #cracker  #steamcracking  #polyethylene  #ethylene 

The US$5 billion Long Son Petrochemicals Company Limited (LSP), the largest petrochemical complex in Vietnam, will begin its commercial operations from October 2024. Photo: Ngoc Hien / Tuoi Tre

Long Son Petrochemicals Company Limited (LSP), the biggest petrochemical complex in Vietnam, will begin commercial operations from October this year.

Thailand’s Siam Cement Group (SCG) Chemicals, the parent company of LSP, on 1st August released its business performance in the first half of this year.

The firm revealed that LSP was projected to generate revenue of VND15 trillion (US$592.8 million) this year and VND38 trillion ($1.5 billion) by 2025.

The petrochemical complex was initially scheduled for commercial operations in the second quarter of this year.

However, it grappled with a technical problem during its trial operation early this year, resulting in its suspension from March to June this year to remedy the problem and improve its operation capacity.

The complex, when put into commerical operation, will supply plastic pellets to the domestic and global markets.

The global economic downturn and oversupply will be great challenges for the project, according to SCG.

LSP, covering 464 hectares of land in Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province, a neighbor of Ho Chi Minh City, is the first integrated petrochemical project in Vietnam.

In vietnam, SCG’s revenue totaled nearly VND16.4 trillion ($656 million) in the first six months of this year, rising 12 percent over the year-ago period.

Thammasak Sethaudom, president and CEO of SCG, said SCG’s performance in the second quarter of this year was better than that in the previous quarter.

The group yielded VND88.38 trillion ($3.5 billion) in total revenue and VND2.6 trillion ($102 million) in profit of last quarter, up three and 53 percent, respectively, over the previous quarter.

Its revenue hit VND174 trillion ($7 billion) in the first half of 2024.

Tuổi Trẻ Online, 3rd Aug 2024

#polyethylene  #polypropylene  #steamcracking  #vietnam  #scg 

Credit: @ExxonMobil, Port-Jérôme (Gravenchon) refinery

ExxonMobil Chemical 🇫🇷 France (EMCF) announced on April 11 the definitive shutdown of the steam cracker and the polyethylene, polypropylene, adhesives and associated logistics facilities units at the Gravenchon site in Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine (Seine-Maritime) in 2024. This will result in the loss of 677 jobs out of a workforce of 2,400 employees in France during 2025, the company said in a press release. In detail, 647 positions will disappear on site and 30 at the company's management in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine). The Port-Jérôme refinery activities are not affected. The site will continue to produce and supply fuels, lubricants, base oils and bitumens. Similarly, the activity of Infineum, the joint venture between ExxonMobil and Shell for the production of additives, is not part of the announcement. In 2020, 35 million euros were invested in these operations also located in Gravenchon.

#fuels  #lubricants  #bitumen  #polyethylene  #polypropylene  #steamcracking  #steamcracker  #refining  #refinery  #france  #exxonmobil 

Mass Balances of Borouge 1, Borouge 2 and Borouge 3 have been completed. Borouge 4 site's model has been initialized but will be finalized when the project comes on-stream. With each further stage, the sites are becoming more complex, as shown in the mass balance table of Borouge 3. The Mass Balances are presented as simplified block flow diagrams (Borouge 1 visual, Borouge 2 visual, Borouge 3 visual). Technologies have been identified for all assets of all three projects as shown for the Borouge 3 technology table. By clicking on the blue 'T' icons in the diagrams or on the technology name in the technology table, the corresponding technology is shown (e.g. Linde Steam Cracker) and by clicking on the green 'F' icons, the flow details for the corresponding asset are displayed.

#polyethylene  #polypropylene  #steamcracking  #ethyleneplant  #steamcracker