Project Profile
Value: $3000
Startup Year: 2014
Capacity: 76,000 bpd (3.8 million tpy0
The project will see the construction of a cracker that will have a capacity of 1.1 million metric tons per year. The cracker will produce around 1.1 million metric tons of ethylene per year, which will be processed into 410,000 metric tons of monoethylene glycol, 350,000 metric tons of high density polyethylene and 450,000 metric tons of linear low density polyethylene, mainly for export. The feed gas will come from southern Algerian fields.
Operators:
Sonatrach: 51% interest
Total: 39% interest
Qatar Petroleum (QP): 10% interest
Contractors:
Constituent companies in developing a methanol production facility:
Mitsui & Co.
Al-Qurain Petrochemical Industries Company (QPIC)
Lurgi AG (Air Liquide Group)
Sotraco
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