Shenghong Refining and Chemical has achieved on-spec products from its new 16m tonne/year refinery at Lianyungang in Jiangsu province, indicating successful start-up of the facility, said the company.
Distillate products, including gasoline, diesel, kerosene and wax oil, have all passed quality test and meet standard requirements. The refinery was commissioned in early May.
The project allows Shenghong to realise integration from upstream refining to downstream paraxylene/ethylene glycol, purified terephthalic acid (PTA), polyester and fibre, it said.
As MRC informed before, initially Shenghong Petrochemical planned to start test runs at its 320,000-bpd crude unit in August or September, 2021.
Ethylene and propylene are the main feedstocks for the production of polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), respectively.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 2,487,450 tonnes in 2021, up by 13% year on year. Shipments of all grades of ethylene polymers increased. At the same time, PP shipments to the Russian market totalled 1,494.280 tonnes, up by 21% year on year. Deliveries of homopolymer PP and PP block copolymers increased, whreas.shipments of PP random copolymers decreased significantly.
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