Sinochem gets approval for preliminary work for a 1 mln tpa ethylene project in Quanzhou

03-Apr-14

State-owned Sinochem has got approval from the National Development and Reform Commission for preliminary work for a 1 mln tpa ethylene project in Quanzhou of the southeastern Fujian province, as per Reuters. Sinochem started test runs at its 240,000 bpd Quanzhou refinery in January. The following table lists ethylene plants started since 2009 SNP/Aramco/Exxon Fujian - 800,000 tons, start up in mid-2009 PetroChina Dushanzi - 1,000,000 tons, start up in late 2009 Norinco/Zhenhua Panjin - 480,000 tons, start up in late 2009 Sinopec/SABIC Tianjin - 1,000,000 tons, start up in Jan 2010 Sinopec Zhenhai - 1,000,000 tons, start up in Q1 2010 Sinopec/BASF Nanjing - 150,000 tons, start up in 2011 PetroChina Daqing 600,000 tons, start up in June 2012 PetroChina Fushun 800,000 tons, start up in Oct 2012 Sinopec/SK Wuhan 800,000 tons, start up in July 2013 PetroChina Sichuan 800,000 tons, start up in Q1 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------ Under construction and planned: ------------------------------------------------------------ Sinopec/Exxon/ Fujian - 200,000 tons CNOOC Huizhou 1,000,000 tons, start up in 2015/16 Sinopec/Kuwait Zhanjiang 1,000,000 tons, start up in 2014 Sinopec* Nanjing 800,000 tons, start up in 2015 PetroChina* Lanzhou 1,000,000 tons PetroChina/Shell * Taizhou 1,200,000 tons Sinopec Hainan 1,000,000 tons, start up in 2015/16 Sinopec* Qingdao 1,000,000 tons Sinochem* Quanzhou 1,000,000 tons ------------------------------------------------------------