By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, July 27 -- Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte.) Ltd. announced a final investment decision to construct an ethylene cracker on Bukom Island, Singapore. The value of the project was not specified.
The Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex will be an integrated refinery and petrochemicals project that includes modifications and additions to the 458,000 b/cd-Pulau Bukom refinery and a new 750,000-tonne/year monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant on Jurong Island.
The cracker and MEG plant will be integrated with the Bukom refinery. The 800,000 tonne/year cracker will supply products to the MEG plant.
Detailed engineering, design, and procurement work is under way. Construction on the ethylene cracker is slated for later this year with start-up anticipated during 2009-10.
