Qatar Petrochemical Company (Qapco) has signed a US$190 mln Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract with Japan Gas Company (JGC), as the main contractor and with Stone and Webster, the technology supplier for the expansion of the existing ethylene plant.
The project is designed to further expand the plant production capacity from 525,000 tpa to 720,000 tpa and improve the operating efficiency and to economically utilise the by-products. The project is scheduled to start up by the end of Q2-2006. The additional ethylene production would be utilised in downstream derivative units, while the excess is to be exported to international markets.
To promote valorisation of by-products, the project includes integration of Qapco debutanizer with Q-Chem depolariser stream, thereby producing fully hydrogenated gasoline to the tune of 44,000 metric tonnes that will be supplied to Qatar Petroleum refinery and constitute the prime benzene source for the upcoming Linear Alkyl benzene project and also production of a fully hydrogenated propane/butane mix to the tune of 56,000 metric tons that will be added to NGL production of Liquefied Petroleum Gas.
09-Jul-07 
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