Singapore's Chemone Group said on Wednesday its Pengerang Energy Complex (PEC) project is likely to start up by 2027-end and had awarded its operations and maintenance contract to a subsidiary of GS Engineering & Construction Corp, said Reuters.
Engineering is "progressing well for the aromatics project in Johor, Malaysia", the company added. This start-up timeline is a further delay from the 2026 earlier announced. The $5 billion project's construction was initially slated to be completed by 2024 when first announced in 2020.
Zeit Operation & Maintenance Co, a subsidiary of GS Engineering, has been selected to handle the operations and maintenance for the PEC project, ChemOne said.
"During the operations phase, Zeit will supervise and analyse the operations, monitor and advise on start-up and troubleshooting, as well as perform process optimisation."
The project includes a 150,000-barrels per day (bpd) condensate splitter, which subsequently can produce oil products including jet fuel.
The company also plans to produce up to 2.3 million metric tons per year of aromatics such as paraxylene, a petrochemical feedstock for synthetic fibres and plastic bottles.
We remind, Pengerang Energy Complex Sdn Bhd has signed key agreements with several blue-chip partners for the upcoming Pengerang Energy Complex (PEC), located within the dedicated Pengerang Integrated Petroleum Complex (PIPC) in Johor, Malaysia. The strategic feedstock supply and product off-take agreement signings with leading energy majors Chevron and Equinor, Thai national oil company PTT, and trading house Mitsui & Co. Ltd are worth a combined total of USD102 billion and together will support the full needs of PEC for its initial 12 years of operation.
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