Chinese petrochemical complex fully on stream

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.

April 27, 2006

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.