Sibur venturing forth

摘要

The big play for Sibur over the coming years will be its $9.5-billion ZapSib petrochemicals mega-project at Tobolsk, western Siberia-but it is not the only 'game in town' for the Russian group. Due for start-up around 2020, ZapSib features an 8,000-kilo-tonnes-per-annum (ktpa) LPG supply line feeding a 1,500 ethylene cracker, 2,000 ktpa of poly-olefins capacity as well as 240 ktpa of by-products, including butadiene, 1-butene and MTBE. While Sibur sells about 65% of its products in Russia and other former Soviet Union countries, this proposition will change with the ZapSib project, according to chairman Dmitry Konov.