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April 14 (yarnsandfibers) --
CB&I announced that the ethylene cracker project in Singapore has been
successfully started up, producing on-specification ethylene and propylene. The cracker complex is owned and operated by
Shell Eastern Petroleum Ltd and is an integral component of the Shell Eastern
Petrochemicals Complex project in Singapore, which comprises modifications to
the existing Bukom Refinery as well as the building of a new world scale
mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) plant on Jurong island.
The 800,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) cracker increases Singapore's ethylene capacity by 40 percent while also producing
450,000 tpa of propylene, 230,000 tpa of benzene and 155,000 tpa of butadiene.
The ethylene cracker uses Lummus Technology proprietary
ethylene cracking technology, and the butadiene extraction unit uses proprietary
technology from BASF/Lummus Technology.
CB&I, in a joint venture with Toyo Engineering Corporation, completed the
engineering, procurement and construction of the cracker complex. During the
course of this project, employees achieved over 39 million work-hours without a
lost-time incident, a world-class safety achievement. More than 12,000 workers
were employed at the peak of construction, and a ferry line was commissioned to
provide transport each day from mainland Singapore to the complex on Bukom
Island, approximately eight kilometers away.
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