INEOS's Ethane Supply Project Grangemouth, Scotland

摘要

INEGS's Grangemouth complex is the company's largest manufacturing site by product volume and is home to Scotland's only crude oil refinery. Faced with significant natural gas declines from the North Sea and no available raw materials locally INEOS is forced to source additional petrochemical feedstock from outside the UK. The Ethane Supply Project is a $545-MM investment to import and make use of advantaged feedstock, primarily ethane, from US shale gas fields. The project includes the construction of a gas import terminal and what will be Europe's biggest ethane storage tank, once completed. The imported ethane will be instrumental in enabling the ethylene cracker at Grangemouth to return its throughput capacity from less than half of its present capacity to 100%.