PetroChina Urumqi Petrochemical is planning to revamp and upgrade its refining facilities by adding some new refining as well as petrochemical units, said Reuters.
A 450,000 tonne/year polypropylene (PP), a 300,000 tonne/year styrene monomer (SM), a 200,000 tonne/year polystyrene (PS), and a 1.2m tonne/year purified phthalate acid (PTA) unit will be installed as the petrochemical part.
The refining part will mainly include a new 1.2m tonne/year solvent deasphalting (SDA), a 2.2m tonne/year fluid catalytic cracking (FCC), and a 1m tonne/year gas fractionation units.
The company is seeking environment approval for proceeding the project.
Urumqi Petrochemical currently runs 8.5m tonnes/year of refining and 1m tonnes/year of para-xylene capacities.
We remind, PetroChina has completed construction of two crude distillation units (CDUs) of its integrated refining and petrochemical complex at Jieyang in Guangdong province. The CDUs each can process 10m tonnes/year, or 200,000 bbl/day, of crude oil. Construction work of the complex, which houses a 400,000 bbl/day refinery, a 1.2m tonne/year cracker and a 2.6m tonne/year aromatics facility, has 98% completed.
PetroChina Urumqi Petrochemical Company Urumqi Complex is an active petrochemical complex located in Xinjiang, China. The complex started commercial operations in 1984 and currently has an active annual capacity of 3.8mtpa. Its capacity is expected to remain the same as 3.8mtpa in 2030. The plants in this complex are operated by Urumqi Petrochemical.
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