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THAILAND: PTT Global Chemical awards EPC contract for aromatics II debottlenecking project

PTT Global Chemical has awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to SK Engineering and Construction and PTT Maintenance and Engineering for a debottlenecking project that will increase aromatics capacity by 16 % to about 1.2-million t/y at its Aromatics II complex in Rayong, Thailand.

The approximately USD 128.8-million project will increase paraxylene capacity to 770,000 t/y from 655,000 t/y, benzene capacity to 390,000 t/y from 355,000 t/y and will add 20,000 t/y of orthoxylene capacity.

Completion of the expansion is scheduled for the end of 2015.

Source: Weekly "PetroChemical News", Durham, NC, USA; 9 Dec 2013
(Syed Rashid Ali, Karachi, Pakistan)


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