Aramco, partners to expand China petchems jv

Fujian Refining and Petrochemical Co. (FRPC; Quanzhou, China), a joint venture in which Fujian Petrochemical has 50%, and ExxonMobil and Saudi Aramco have 25% each, is planning to expand capacity at its Quanzhou production complex, CW has learned. Sources tell CW that the jv plans to add 200,000 m.t./year of ethylene and 100,000 m.t./year of propylene capacity, and debottleneck the complex’s downstream polyolefin plants. The project will increase FRPC’s steam cracking capacity to just more than 1 million m.t./year of ethylene. FRPC sources some propylene from...

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