By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Apr. 27 -- All production units of the $4.3 billion Daya Bay petrochemical complex in China's Huizhou Guangdong Province are fully operational, said Foster Wheeler Ltd., whose subsidiary is the project management contractor.
The complex is a joint venture of China National Offshore Oil Corp., Shell Petrochemicals Co. Ltd., and Guangdong Guangye Investment Group Co. Ltd. (OGJ, Mar. 27, 2006, p. 44).
The project involved construction of a world-scale cracker (lower olefins plant) together with other process units, power generation, utilities, and infrastructure. The cracker produces 800,000 tonnes/year of ethylene and 430,000 tonnes/year of propylene.
Construction was completed at yearend. On-specification ethylene and propylene production started on Jan. 29. The complex is expected to produce 2.3 million tonnes/year of total products to supply Guangdong primarily and also China's southeast coast.
