Project Profile
Value: US$2.4 billion
Start-up Year: Q1, 2014
Production capacity: 1.4 million tonnes per year
Location: Jurong Island, southwest of the main island of Singapore
The plant has an annual production capacity of 1.4 million tonnes of aromatics, 800,000 tonnes of para-xylene 200,000 tonnes of ortho-xylene, 450,000 tonnes of benzene, as well as another 2.5 million tonne of petroleum products. The plant will use natural gas and condensate as feedstock.
Operator/Developer:
ExxonMobil
Joint venture constructing the project:
SK Global Chemical
SK Gas
SK Engineering and Construction Co.