Nov 30 2007
PetroChina Sichuan Petrochemical Co., Ltd. (PetroChina) has chosen LP OxoSM SELECTORSM 10 Technology for its new facility in Chengdu, capital city of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Peoples Republic of China. LP Oxo Technology is cooperatively offered by Dow Technology Licensing, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated affiliates (Dow), and Davy Process Technology Limited, a Johnson Matthey company.
The Sichuan plant will include the largest custom designed single line low pressure hydroformylation unit built anywhere in the world, with a design production of 338,000 metric tons per year of normal- and iso-butyraldehydes. This train will supply two alcohol production lines, with the first slated to produce 81,800 metric tons per year of 2-ethylhexanol (2EH), and the second to produce 211,900 metric tons per year of normal butanol and 30,800 metric tons per year of iso-butanol. Design and engineering is scheduled to begin in December 2007 and start-up is planned for September 2010. The new LP Oxo facility is part of a grass-root petrochemical complex that PetroChina will construct centered on an 800,000 metric tons per year ethylene plant, which will be the largest in southwest China.
Dr. Molly Zhang, business vice president of Dow Technology Licensing said, “Davy and Dow have a long-standing relationship with PetroChina that goes back nearly 30 years. Our LP Oxosm Technology is already in place at PetroChina’s Daqing and Jilin facilities, and we are honored that they have once again chosen LP Oxo Technology for their new facility in Chengdu.”
At the contract signing ceremony in Beijing, Dr. David Tomlinson, president of Davy Process Technology, welcomed PetroChina Sichuan as the twenty-third LP Oxo licensee worldwide, and pointed out that the Sichuan oxo project would not only result in a truly global scale investment, it would also be the third that PetroChina had awarded the Davy Process Technology and Dow LP Oxo collaboration.
The contract covers the license, process design, procurement and technical services and certain proprietary equipment and materials.