Inter Pipeline Ltd., Calgary, has let a contract to W.R. Grace & Co. to provide polypropylene (PP) technology and associated polyolefin catalyst supply for a PP unit to be built at its proposed $3.5-billion (Can.) Heartland Petrochemical Complex (HPC) in in Strathcona County, Alta. (OGJ Online, Dec. 20, 2017).
Grace will deliver its proprietary Unipol PP process technology and nonphthalate CONSISTA catalyst for the new plant, which will process propylene feedstock into PP beginning in late 2021, the service provider said.
A value of the contract was not disclosed.
Approved for construction in December 2017, the HPC will be built near Inter Pipeline’s Redwater Olefinic Fractionator (ROF)—which has a capacity to fractionate about 40,000 b/d of ethane-plus mixture—and will include an integrated propane dehydrogenation (PDH) and PP plant designed to convert 22,000 b/d of propane feedstock from ROF and several other third-party fractionators in the region into 525,000 tonnes/year of polymer-grade PP.
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