By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Apr. 19 -- Qatar Petroleum, Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC, Qatar Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (QAPCO), and Total Petrochemicals have signed a letter of intent with Technip France to provide engineering, procurement, and construction services for a 1.3 million tonne/year ethylene cracker in Ras Laffan, Qatar.
The cracker will provide ethylene feedstock via pipeline to derivative units planned in Mesaieed, Qatar. The venture will be owned by QAPCO and Total Petrochemicals through their Qatofin joint venture and Qatar Petroleum and Chevron Phillips through their Q-Chem II joint venture.
The ethylene cracker and the Q-Chem II project, which will include a 350,000-tonne/year polyethylene plant and a 350,000-tonne/year normal alpha olefins plant adjacent to the existing Q-Chem complex, are slated for operation in late 2008.
The polyethylene and alpha olefins plant will use proprietary Chevron Phillips technology.
Also, Qatofin is building a 450,000-tonne/year linear low-density polyethylene unit, which will begin service in 2008 in Mesaieed alongside existing QAPCO low-density polyethylene units.
