Qatar will use a mix feed of ethane and natural gas liquids as feedstock for two upcoming petrochemical projects. The NGLs will come from the second phase of Ras Laffan refinery 2 (LR2), a US$1.5 bln project that will consist of a 146,000 b/d processing capacity condensate refinery.
The first project is a 80:20 venture between Qatar Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell. The US$6.4 bln project includes a world-scale steam cracker to be built at Qatar's Ras Laffan industrial city and a 1.5 million m tpa monoethylene glycol plant and 300,000 m tpa linear alpha olefins. The other project is a 80:20 venture between QP and Qatari oil major Qapco. The US$5.5 bln petrochemicals complex will produce 1.4 mln tpa of ethylene and other products, 850,000 m tpa of high density polyethylene, 430,000 m tpa of linear low-density polyethylene, 760,000 m tpa of polypropylene and 83,000 m tpa of butadiene.
25-Jun-13 
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