Shell’s MEG plant on Jurong Island on target

30-Mar-07

Three separate ceremonies took place at the Ethylene Cracker Complex on Pulau Bukom, the MEG site on Jurong Island and at the existing Bukom Refinery, marking the construction of the Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex (SEPC). Upon completion, the complex will include a 800,000 tpa ethylene cracker and a 750,000 tpa mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) plant, as well as modifications and additions to the Bukom Refinery. Construction of SEPC began in late October last year and remains on target for start-up in 2009-2010. With a current workforce of nearly 1,400 people and resources mobilised in over 15 locations from Glasgow to Tokyo, across five different time zones, the project has achieved a number of milestones already: - Land reclamation works by JTC Corp for the cracker project have been successfully completed and handed over - Offices for the Shell project team and Foster Wheeler's¹ office for the Bukom Refinery modifications, and the MEG project teams in Jurong, have been opened and are in use.