By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Dec. 1 -- ExxonMobil Chemical has started up an expansion of its Rotterdam aromatics plant (OGJ, Oct. 1, 2007, Newsletter).
The project boosted paraxylene capacity by 25% to 700,000 tonnes/year and benezene capacity by 20% to 830,000 tonnes/year.
The plant, owned and operated by ExxonMobil Chemical Holland BV, is now ExxonMobil’s largest paraxylene production facility. The new unit uses proprietary ExxonMobil technology called PxMax.
Photo from Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Photo from Indian Oil Corp. Ltd.
