28 December 2012
Details
ExxonMobil
has commenced startup operations
at one of the world's largest ethylene steam crackers,
the centerpiece of the company's multi-billion dollar
expansion project at Singapore petrochemical complex.
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Aฺฺฺbout new plants
The expansion, powered by
a new 220-megawatt cogeneration plant,
adds 2.6 million tonnes per year of
new finished product capacity.
It includes
- two new ethylene plants,
- a polypropylene plant,
- a metallocene elastomers unit,
- an oxo-alcohol unit and
- an aromatics expansion
all of which are completed and beginning operation.
Ethylene production is expected to start
in the next few months.
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About Expansion
The petrochemical expansion is significant to ExxonMobil,
- It makes the Singapore facility Exxonmobil's largest
refining and petrochemical complex.
- It also marks the first production by ExxonMobil of
proprietary specialty elastomers and
metallocene-based polyethylene
in the Asia Pacific region.
- ExxonMobil have doubled the size of
finished product capacity at Singapore,
making the largest chemical expansion project in
ExxonMobil history.
- This is among the most technically advanced and
competitive manufacturing sites in
Singapore and the Asia Pacific region.
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