Article: Exxon Proceeds on Singapore Complex

Worldscale ethylene and derivatives units will cost up to $2 billion.

EXXON CHEMICAL SINGAPORE Pvt. Ltd. has given the go-ahead for its 800,000-metric-ton ethylene cracker complex in Singapore. Startup is expected by 2000.

The near-$2 billion project, which is also expected to turn out at least 300,000 tons of propylene, will be Exxon-owned, and includes downstream plants to make 450,000 tons of polyethylene, 275,000 tons of polypropylene and 150,000 tons of oxo alcohols.

The company expects that several international firms will build additional downstream units to be supplied by the cracker.

Selected to build the cracker are M.W. Kellogg Company ...

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