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POLYPROPYLENE UNIT SLATED FOR MOSCOW

Nov. 2, 1992

Moscow Oil Refinery (MOR) has let a $200 million contract to Italy's Tecnimont for construction of a 100,000 metric ton/year polypropylene plant at the Moscow complex, MOR, a Russian state agency that holds controlling interest in the 88,700 b/d Moscow refinery, will finance the project through international sales of products surplus to Russian demand. Start-up is scheduled for 1995.

Moscow Oil Refinery (MOR) has let a $200 million contract to Italy's Tecnimont for construction of a 100,000 metric ton/year polypropylene plant at the Moscow complex,

MOR, a Russian state agency that holds controlling interest in the 88,700 b/d Moscow refinery, will finance the project through international sales of products surplus to Russian demand.

Start-up is scheduled for 1995.

The polypropylene unit will use as feedstock a lean mix of propane and propylene currently used at the Moscow refinery as a low grade boiler fuel. Plans call for separating the propylene from this mix and using it as a feedstock for producing polypropylene via the Spheripol catalytic process developed by Tecnimont parent Ferruzzi Montedison.

Tecnimont has worked in various republics of the former U.S.S.R. for 60 years and has constructed or installed 30 fertilizer, petrochemical, and other chemical plants there.