MOSCOW (MRC) -- HPCL Rajasthan Refinery Ltd. (HRRL) has recently selected L&T hydrocarbon Engineering (LTHE) for the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) of a dual feed cracker unit and a petrochemical fluidized catalytic cracking unit for its integrated refinery and petrochemical complex in Rajasthan, India, reported Apic-online.
Earlier estimated to cost around Rs 43,129 crore, the project involves a 9-million-t/y refinery, as well as facilities to produce petrochemicals. Start-up was originally scheduled for 2017. A new schedule was not given.
The dual feed cracker unit, with a capacity of 890,000 t/y, will convert refinery naphtha and offgases to produce polymer-grade ethylene and propylene, as well by-products such as butadiene, benzene, toluene and gasoline, through a thermal cracking process. The ethylene and propylene will be used as feedstock for a polyethylene and polypropylene unit.
The 2.9-million-t/y petrochemical fluidized catalytic cracking unit will convert heavy hydrocarbons from the vacuum distillation unit to produce gasoline, diesel, pro-pylene and lighter products by the process of catalytic cracking.
As MRC informed earlier, India's HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited, or HMEL, will start a new 500,000 mt/year polypropylene (PP) plant in Bhatinda in 2021. The company has an existing 440,000 mt/year PP unit at the same site.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing polyethylene (PE) and PP.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 2,220,640 tonnes in 2020, up by 2% year on year. Only shipments of low density polyethylene (LDPE) and high density polyethylene (HDPE) increased. At the same time, polypropylene (PP) shipments to the Russian market reached 1 240,000 tonnes in 2020 (calculated using the formula: production, minus exports, plus imports, excluding producers' inventories as of 1 January, 2020). Supply of exclusively PP random copolymer increased.
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) is an Indian state-owned oil and natural gas company with its headquarters at Mumbai, Maharashtra and with Navratna status. HPCL has about 25% marketing share in India among PSUs and a strong marketing infrastructure. The Government of India owns 51.11% shares in HPCL and others are distributed amongst financial institutes, public and other investors.
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