Singapore's Jurong Aromatics (JAC) has achieved on-specification production of aromatics at its new plant.
"We reached on-spec benzene and paraxylene (PX) production on 7 September and the plant is currently running at around 50-60pc of capacity," a company official said.
JAC's aromatics plant on Jurong island in Singapore can produce up to 800,000 t/yr of PX, 438,000 t/yr of benzene and 200,000 t/yr of orthoxylene (OX). The company expects to produce on-specification OX in the next few days.
JAC intends to gradually stabilise and ramp up production to 100pc over the next four weeks.
The facility is the sixth new aromatics plant outside China that has come on stream this year. The other plants are owned by the Satorp joint venture between Total and Saudi Arabia's state-owned Saudi Aramco, South Korea's SK Inchon Petrochemicals, Ulsan Aromatics and Samsung Total, and India's ONGC Mangalore Petrochemicals (OMPL).
JAC's aromatics complex receives feedstock from an upstream 100,000 b/d condensate splitter that is mainly fed by Australian sweet Northwest Shelf and Qatari sour Deodorised Field Condensate.
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