ExxonMobil-Sinopec JV to include 1 million-m.t/year ethylene plant. (New Construction Projects).(ExxonMobil Chemical Co., China National Petroleum Corp.; joint venture)(Brief Article)

Chemical Week, April, 2002 by Alperowicz, Natasha

ExxonMobil Chemical's previously announced petrochemicals joint venture with Sinopec at Guangzhou, China, will include a 1-million m.t./year naphtha cracker, CW has learned (CW, Oct. 4, 2000, p. 21). The jv will be equally owned by ExxonMobil and Sinopec, and it is likely to be completed in 2008, sources say. This would be two to three years after scheduled completion of ExxonMobil's China petchems jv at Hui An, in China's Fujian province. That project is a jv of ExxonMobil, Saudi Aramco, and Fujian Petrochemical. The Fujian cracker will have an initial capacity of 600,000 m.t./year, expandable to 800,000 m.t./year, sources say, (CW, April 3, p. 16).

ExxonMobil and Sinopec are at the early stages of work on a project proposal for the Guangzhou complex, which...

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