Shaw hands over 600,000 tpa ethylene plant in Nanjing to BASF-YPC

12-Apr-05

Shaw Stone & Webster business unit has officially turned over a 600,000 metric tpa ethylene plant for the BASF-YPC located in Nanjing in the People's Republic of China. Shaw Stone & Webster had been shortlisted to provide engineering, procurement and construction services (EPC) for the steam cracker in 2000, when Sinopec of China and BASF of Germany established a new JV, BASF-YPC Company Limited, to build and operate a US$2.7 billion world-scale integrated petrochemical complex. In addition to the Ethylene Plant, Shaw Stone & Webster has been responsible for providing the Pyrolysis Gasoline, Aromatics and the Spent Caustic Treatment Units, collectively known as the Basic Chemicals Complex, on a turnkey basis. The 600,000 metric tpa steam cracker at the Nanjing site will supply 5 production plants, which in turn will produce 1.7 million tpa of high quality chemicals and polymers. These downstream products will supply the domestic market, substituting a portion of the current imports into China.