Hydrocarbon Processing - January 2021 - 15

LEE NICHOLS, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF/ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER
Lee.Nichols@HydrocarbonProcessing.com

Construction
AFRICA
TechnipFMC has begun construction
on Assiut National Oil Processing Co.'s
new hydrocracking complex in Egypt.
The facility will consists of several new
processing units. The capital-intensive
investment will enable the Assiut refinery
to increase the production of ultra-lowsulfur fuels, such as Euro 5 diesel.

Honeywell UOP was awarded a
contract by Oriental Energy Co. Ltd.
to supply its C3 Oleflex technology for
on-purpose propylene production. The
PDH plant is being built at Oriental Energy's facility in Maoming, Guangdong
Province, China. The unit is scheduled
to begin producing on-purpose propylene in 2022.

ASIA-PACIFIC

EUROPE

Lummus Technology was awarded
a technology licensing contract from
Kingfa Science and Technology Co.
Ltd. for two new propane dehydrogenation (PDH) units. Both units-each with
a processing capacity of 600,000 tpy-will
be built in the Qingzhi Industrial Park,
Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, China.
Kaijin Blue Sky Energy Co. Ltd. has
selected LyondellBasell's processing
technology for a new 600,000-tpy polypropylene (PP) plant. The facility will be
built in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. The PP plant will use LyondellBasell's
Spheripol and Spherizone technologies.
W. R. Grace will supply its UNIPOL
PP process technology to PT Pertamina
Rosneft Pengolahan dan Petrokimia's PP plant in Tuban, Indonesia. The
plant will consist of two PP production
lines, each with a production capacity of
580,000 tpy.
Shandong Yulong Petrochemical
Co. let a Master Licensor service contract
to Lummus Technology for multiple
units at the company's mega-integrated
complex. The facility, located in Shandong
Province, China, consists of two mixedfeed crackers, an ethylbenzene/styrene
monomer plant and two PP lines.
Ceylon Petroleum Corp. (CPC) has
been given approval by the Sri Lankan
government to pursue plans to expand the
40,000-bpd Sapugaskanda refinery. CPC
has begun a new feasibility study to increase
the refinery's capacity by 100,000 bpd.

Skovgard Invest, supported by Vestas
and Haldor Topsoe, is planning to build
the world's first commercial-scale green
ammonia plant. The facility will be in
Western Jutland, Denmark, and produce
more than 5,000 tpy of green ammonia
from renewable power. The production
is forecast to prevent 8,200 tpy of CO2
from being emitted into the atmosphere.
Production is scheduled to begin in 2022.
Clariant is building a new cellulosic-ethanol production plant in Podari,
Romania. The plant, based on the company's sunliquid technology, will process
approximately 250,000 tpy of straw to
produce 50,000 tpy of sunliquid cellulosic ethanol. The plant's carbon-neutral
biofuel can be blended into conventional
fuel. Construction is scheduled to be
completed by the end of 2021.
Naftna Industrija Srbije commissioned Stage 2 of the Pancevo refinery's
modernization program. Stage 2 consisted of the construction of a deep conversion complex to boost production of
Euro-5 gasoline and diesel. The more than
$360-MM project included several new
processing units, including a new delayed
coking unit utilizing proprietary technology from Chevron Lummus Global.
Repsol selected Axens' Vegan technology for a new biofuels plant to be built
in Spain. The 250,000-tpy plant will be
built at Repsol's Cartagena refinery. Once
completed, the biofuels plant will produce biodiesel, biojet fuel, bionaphtha
and biopropane.

LATIN AMERICA
In mid-November 2020, TechnipFMC was given a Notice to Proceed with
construction work on IEnova's Costa
Azul LNG project in Baja California,
Mexico. At a cost of approximately $2
B, Phase 1 includes the construction of
a 3.25-MMtpy liquefaction plant. TechnipFMC expects to complete Phase 1
activities in late 2024. Phase 2, if implemented, would include expanding the
facility by 12 MMtpy, including the construction of two additional liquefaction
lines and storage.

MIDDLE EAST

In late November, Iraq's oil minister
announced plans to invite international
companies to bid on the completion of
the Fao refinery. The 300,000-bpd refinery will include an integrated petrochemical plant.

U.S.

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. is considering building a $1-B, 350,000-tpy methyl
methacrylate plant in Geismar, Louisiana.
The plant would be located on a 67-acre
greenfield site the company acquired from
Lion Elastomers. Mitsubishi Chemical
Corp. plans to take FID by mid-2022.
Bayport Polymers, a JV between
Borealis and Total, plans to start up its
1-MMtpy ethane cracker in Port Arthur,
Texas, by the end of 1Q 2021. The company has pushed back the startup of its
625,000-tpy HDPE plant, being built in
Bayport, Texas, to 1Q 2022.
Grön Fuels announced plans to potentially develop a $9.2-B renewable fuel
complex in Louisiana. The project-to
be completed over several phases-will
be located on the west bank of the Mississippi River near Port Allen. Phase 1
includes the construction of processing
units to produce 60,000 bpd of low-carbon renewable diesel. Phase 1, scheduled
to be completed by 2024, investments are
expected to eclipse $1.25 B.
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