Chandra Asri mulls debottlenecking and major expansions from 2019 to 2025

12-Oct-16

Indonesia's Chandra Asri is considering a major expansion and debottlenecking of its naphtha-fed steam cracker at Cilegon and downstream derivative plants over 2019-2025, the company at the Indonesia Refining and Petrochemical Summit, as per Platts.
According to Suhat Miyarso, vice president of corporate relations, the company's ethylene production capacity will be increased from 860,000 m tpa to 2 million m tpa around 2025 while propylene production will rise from 470,000 m tpa to 1.09 million m tpa. Butadiene production capacity will be hiked to 137,000 m tpa in 2019 from 100,000 m tpa.
Although the company is increasing its polyethylene capacity from 336,000 m tpa to 736,000 m tpa around 2020, Chandra Asri is considering plans to boost PE capacity by 800,000 m tpa to 1.536 million m tpa. Via debottlenecking, its polypropylene capacity will grow from 480,000 m tpa to 560,000 m tpa by 2025.
The company is also studying plans to either build an aromatics plant or a benzene extraction plant so that it can use its 400,000 m tpa of pyrolysis gasoline to obtain benzene feedstock for its 100,000 m tpa styrene monomer plant.
Currently, the company imports all its benzene requirements while the pygas is fed to Pertamina for the gasoline pool.