By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Aug. 3 -- Repsol YPF SA plans to nearly double production of the Sines petrochemical complex 160 km south of Lisbon, Portugal, by 2010.
Repsol YPF officials presented the proposal to the Portuguese Ministry of Economy and Innovation late last month.
The project includes an increase in capacity of the facility's naphtha cracker to 570,000 tonnes/year of ethylene. The cracker's capacity is now 350,000 tonnes/year and will rise to 410,000 tonnes/year with projects already under way.
With the cracker expansion and construction of linear polyethylene and polypropylene plants and a power station, output will increase to 590,000 tonnes/year of polyethylene and 300,000 tonnes/year of polypropylene by 2010.
The facility now has 275,000 tonnes/year of polyethylene capacity, growing to 295,000 tonnes/year with current projects, and no polypropylene capacity.
