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Article: Qatar Petrochemical Co.
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- APS Review Downstream Trends
- Article date:
- September 14, 2009
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Qapco is owned 80% by QP (IQ) and 20% by Atofina (a Total unit which in September 2002 bought Enichem's 10% stake). Its complex at Messai'eed has the following: a 525,000 t/y ethylene plant, expanded in mid-1996 from 304,000 t/y and expanded to 825,000 t/y in a project completed in 2008; a 430,000 t/y LDPE plant, raised in mid-1996 from 180,000 t/y and in 2003/04 from 380,000 t/y through de-bottlenecking.
Basell was in April 2007 selected to licence its Lupotech T technology for Qapco's new 290,000 t/y LDPE-II unit completed in 2008. The new unit takes advantage of surplus ethylene at Messai'eed. A further de-bottlenecking of Qapco's ethane cracker, completed in ...