Ethylene furnaces delivered for Zhejiang Petrochemical complex

Wison Engineering Services Co. Ltd. has completed delivery of all nine ethylene-cracking furnaces to be installed as part of the naphtha cracking unit at the first phase of Zhejiang Petrochemical Co. Ltd.’s (ZPC) 800,000-b/d integrated refining and petrochemical complex currently under construction in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, China (OGJ Online, June 5, 2017).

Wison Engineering—which was responsible for modularized design, construction, and installation of the project—along with affiliate Wison Offshore & Marine delivered the ninth modular ethylene-cracking furnace to the site at the end of October following delivery of the other eight similar furnace modules earlier in the year, the service provider said.

The core equipment of the naphtha cracking unit—which is composed of nine ethylene-cracking furnaces with an output of 200,000 tonnes/year each and will have the largest single-chain ethylene production capacity in China upon startup—is now fully in place, Wison Engineering said.

With a total weight of about 33,000 tonnes, the nine ethylene-cracking furnace modules for Phase 1 of the complex will be able to produce 1.4 million tpy of ethylene.

The first 400,000-b/d phase of ZPC’s complex is due for startup by December, while Phase 2—which will nearly double processing and production capabilities at the site—is scheduled for commissioning during first-quarter 2021 (OGJ Online, Mar. 16, 2018).

ZPC—a joint venture of China-based Rongsheng Holding Group Co. Ltd., Juhua Group Corp., Tongkun Group Co. Ltd., and Zhoushan Marine Comprehensive Development Investment Co. Ltd.—previously said it would invest about 160 billion yuan to complete both phases of the project.

Saudi Aramco also recently signed a memorandum of understanding with ZPC to acquire ownership interest in the complex (OGJ Online, Oct. 26, 2018).

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