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Article: KUWAIT: JOINT VENTURE FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR PROPOSED LARGE-SCALE PETROCHEMICAL COMPLEX IS TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED TO BE COMPLETED BY THE END OF 1998 OR EARLY 1999, UNION CARBIDE [USA] & PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRIES (PIC) [KUWAIT] - Order #: 126898.
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- WWP-Report on Engineering Construct & Plant Operations in the Developing World
- Article date:
- December 1, 1998
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PROJECT OVERVIEW:
The local EQUATE, a joint venture that teams-up U.S.-based UNION CARBIDE and PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRIES (PIC), a subsidiary of KUWAIT PETROLEUM CORP. (KPC) of Kuwait, completed their first petrochemical complex in Kuwait in 1997. The manufacturing base in question featured a 600,000 metric ton per year methane cracker to feed downstream plants consisting of a 450,000 mt/y polyethylene unit and a 350,000 mt/y ethylene glycol facility. The complex in question required an investment of some $2,000,000,000 to complete.
According to Charles Kline, EQUATE CEO, his company is now looking into the feasibility of building a new olefins complex ...
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