PT Pertamina Rosneft Pengolahan dan Petrokimia (PT PRPP), a joint venture of PJSC Rosneft (45%) and Indonesian state-owned PT Pertamina (55%), has let a contract to Royal Dutch Shell Ltd.’s Shell Catalysts & Technologies (SC&T) to provide technology licensing and basic engineering services for new processing units at PT PRPP’s grassroots integrated oil refinery and petrochemical complex in Tuban, East Java, Indonesia (OGJ Online, Oct. 29, 2019).
As part of the contract, SC&T will deliver its proprietary OMEGA process for production of monoethylene glycol (MEG), as well as its distillate hydrotreating process for catalytic removal of sulfur and nitrogen, as well as hydrogenation of aromatics, from diesel fractions of certain crude oils, SC&T said on Feb. 24.
Carlos Mondolfi, PT PRPP’s project director, said the licensing and engineering agreement with SC&T will enable the Tuban integrated complex to become one of the most competitive complexes of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region.
SC&T did not reveal a value of the contract.
Project overview
Launched in 2016 and formally established in 2017, the PRPP JV is developing an integrated 300,000-b/d refinery and petrochemical complex at Tuban that, once in operation, will produce more than 1 million tonnes/year of ethylene and 1.3 million tpy of aromatic hydrocarbons (OGJ Online, Nov. 29, 2017).
The Tuban integrated complex specifically will produce 1.2 million tpy of polypropylene (PP) products, 1.3 million tpy of paraxylene, and 650,000 tpy of polyethylene, according to PT PRPP.
Previously scheduled to be completed before 2025, the complex is now slated for startup during 2025, according to SC&T.
This latest contract for the project follows PT PRPP’s late-2020 awards to Lummus Technology LLC, Chevron Lummus Global (CLG), and W. R. Grace & Co. to provide various proprietary technologies and associated services for additional units at the planned integrated complex (OGJ Online, Dec. 11, 2020).
