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LEE NICHOLS, VP, CONTENT/EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Lee.Nichols@HydrocarbonProcessing.com
Construction
AFRICA
Anchorage Investments has shortlisted
four companies to build its $2-B
Anchor Benitoite petrochemical complex
project in Ain Sokhna, Egypt. These
companies include Hyundai, Samsung,
Technip Energies and Tecnicas Reunidas.
Once completed, the Anchor Benitoite
complex will produce 1.75 MMtpy
of petrochemical products.
ASIA-PACIFIC
BASF has begun operation on several
plants at its Verbund site in China. The
$10-B facility is being built in Zhanjiang
and represents BASF's largest single investment
in the country. Once operational
by 2030, the plant will produce up to
1 MMtpy of ethylene and other various
petrochemicals.
In September, Indian Oil Corp.
(IOC) awarded an engineering, procurement,
construction and commissioning
(EPCC) contract to Larsen & Toubro for
the project's 2.5-MMtpy residue hydrocracking
unit. This project is part of IOC's
$4-B, 10-MMtpy expansion of the Panipet
refinery and chemical complex in Haryana,
India.
Once completed, the complex's
total capacity will reach 25 MMtpy.
IOC has also announced plans to invest
approximately $25 B to reach net-zero
emissions from its operations by 2046.
The company's plan centers primarily
on refining and petrochemical plant operations,
which account for 97% of IOC's
emissions. The company will use renewable
energy to fuel its capacity expansion,
along with building green hydrogen
plants at its refineries.
PT Kilang Pertamina International
(PT KPI) is developing a second phase
of the Trans-Pacific Indotama Olefin
Complex Development Project. The
complex is being built in Tuban Regency,
East Java, Indonesia. According to Pertamina,
this stage includes the construction
of a naphtha cracker that will feed
downstream units to produce 1 MMtpy
of polyethylene and 600,000 tpy of polypropylene
(PP). These petrochemical
production units are scheduled to be
completed in 2024.
Thaioil plans to complete its Clean
Fuels Project in 2023. Designed to expand
and upgrade the Laemchabang
plant in Chonburi province, Thailand,
the nearly $5-B project will enable the refiner
to produce Euro-5 fuels. The project
will also increase the facility's refining
capacity by 125,000 bpd to 400,000 bpd.
Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd.
(BPCL) has announced plans to build
two new petrochemical plants in India.
BPCL will build an ethylene cracker at
the Bina refinery Madhya Pradesh and a
PP plant at the Kochi refinery in Kerala.
Both projects are expected to be completed
in 2026.
To mitigate costly imports of refined
fuels and petrochemical products, PetroVietnam
has proposed a plan to develop
an integrated refining and petrochemicals
complex in Long Son commune, Vung
Tau city, Vietnam. The $19-B project
will be developed in two stages. Stage 1
consists of a 12-MMtpy-13-MMtpy integrated
refinery and petrochemical complex.
Once completed, the complex will
produce 7 MMtpy-9 MMtpy of petroleum
products and 2 MMtpy-3 MMtpy
of petrochemicals. The second phase will
increase petroleum products output by
3 MMtpy-5 MMtpy and petrochemicals
production by 5.5 MMtpy-7.5 MMtpy.
According to PetroVietnam, the feasibility
study on the project will be completed
in late 2023. A final investment
decision (FID) is scheduled for Q1
2024, with EPC contract awards from
2024 to late 2027.
Debo is building a 200,000-tpy biomethanol
plant in China. The full volume
of the produced green bio-methanol
will be used by Maersk; the company
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will use the product as a shipping fuel.
In an effort to decarbonize marine shipping,
Maersk has ordered more than 10
large, dual-powered TEU boxships-the
ships can burn methanol or conventional
low-sulfur fuel for power. Debo's
bio-methanol plant is scheduled to begin
operations in Q3 2024.
Lummus Technology will supply its
CATOFIN and Novolen technologies for
two units being built by Fujian Eversun
New Material Co. in Fujian province,
China. Lummus will provide its CATOFIN
technology for a 900,000-tpy propane
dehydrogenation unit and its Novolen
technology for an 800,000-tpy PP unit
being built at Fujian Eversun's complex.
Lummus' scope includes the license of
both technologies, basic design engineering,
training, services and catalyst supply.
Viva Energy Australia has awarded
McDermott a front-end engineering design
(FEED) contract for its ultra-lowsulfur
(ULS) gasoline project in Australia.
McDermott will provide FEED for a
new modularization unit to increase the
production of ULS gasoline at Viva Energy's
Geelong refinery in the Australian
state of Victoria. The ULS fuel will lower
sulfur content to 10 ppm, which will enable
Viva Energy to adhere to new fuel
quality regulations that will take effect in
the country by 2025.
Chennai Petroleum Corp. Ltd. has
formed a JV with its parent company
IOC to build a nearly $4-B refinery
in India. Located at Nagapattinam in
the state of Tamil Nadu, the 9-MMtpy
refinery will be built after the JV dismantles
the existing 1-MMtpy Cauvery
Basin refinery located there. The new
refinery will produce refined fuels that
adhere to India's Bharat Stage-6 fuel
quality standard.
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