MOSCOW (MRC) -- Samsung Engineering said that mechanical completion (MC) has been achieved at a new linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) plant and an ethylene oxide (EO)/ethylene glycol (EG) facility, built as part of Petronas' Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project, in Pengerang, Johor, Malaysia, as per Apic-online.
In 2016, PRPC Polymers, a subsidiary of Petronas, awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning contract (EPCC) to a consortium of Sam-sung Engineering Co., Samsung C&T and Samsung Engineering Sdn Bhd for the 350,000-t/y LLDPE unit.
At the same time, Petronas' PRPC Glycols subsidiary awarded the consortium an EPCC contract for the 740,000-t/y EO/EG plant.
The RAPID project includes a 300,000-b/d refinery and a petrochemical complex with a capacity of over 7-million t/y. Operations are expected to begin early this year.
As MRC wrote before, in June 2017, Malaysia's state oil firm Petroliam Nasional Berhad said its new USD27 billion refining and petrochemical complex project in the southeast Asian country is on track for start-up in 2019.
Petronas, short for Petroliam Nasional Berhad, is a Malaysian oil and gas company wholly owned by the Government of Malaysia. The Group is engaged in a wide spectrum of petroleum activities, including upstream exploration and production of oil and gas to downstream oil refining; marketing and distribution of petroleum products; trading; gas processing and liquefaction; gas transmission pipeline network operations; marketing of liquefied natural gas; petrochemical manufacturing and marketing; shipping; automotive engineering; and property investment.
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