May 25, 2009 Monday
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May 25, 2009
Shell to start petrochem project
ROYAL Dutch Shell Plc, Europe's biggest oil company, said it's 'on track' to start up its Singapore petrochemicals complex at the end of this year, Bloomberg news reported.

The company's schedule for starting up the complex in phases 'remains unchanged,' said Oh Yam Chew, a spokesman for Shell in Singapore on Monday.

The complex is Shell's largest single investment in Asia, and will includes the capacity to produce 800,000 metric tons of ethylene and 750,000 metric tons of mono-ethylene glycol a year.

Ethylene is used in the production of plastics.

'The project scope also includes modifications and additions to the Bukom refinery and a butadiene extraction plant,' Shell said in a statement on Monday, without elaborating.

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