SINGAPORE: ExxonMobil starts up new ethylene cracker, power plant at petrochemicals complex. Shell expands petrochemical capacity.

摘要

After more than a year of delay, ExxonMobil said it has started up operations at one of the world's largest ethylene steam crackers, the centrepiece of the company's multi-billion dollar expansion project at its Singapore petrochemical complex. The US major has added a new 220-megawatt cogeneration power plant, and a petrochemicals complex with an annual capacity to produce a total 2.6 million tonnes of ethylene, polyethylene, polypropylene, metallocene elastomers, an oxo-alcohol unit and aromatics. Ethylene production is expected to start in the next few months, well behind the original target of early 2011.