By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Mar. 12 -- ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. authorized John Wood Group subsidiary Mustang Engineering to proceed with detailed engineering design and construction management for the process control of a second world-scale steam cracker complex in Singapore.
The project will be integrated with the existing Singapore site, providing feedstock, operating, and investment synergies with both the chemical plant and refinery.
The petrochemical project will employ ExxonMobil's latest proprietary technologies, enabling a broad range of feedstocks to be processed and converted into higher-value products.
The project will include a world-scale, 1 million tonne/year ethylene cracker, two 650,000 tpy polyethylene units, a 450,000 tpy polypropylene unit, a 300,000 tpy specialty elastomers unit, an aromatics extraction unit to produce 340,000 tpy of benzene and an oxo-alcohol expansion of 125,000 tpy. Project start-up is expected in early 2011.
Mustang also was awarded the upgrade of the process controls of the existing steam cracker complex. In 2006, Mustang completed the front-end engineering design contract for process control, which has been used to launch the detailed design of this project.