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(ICIS) -- Byco Oil Pakistan Ltd (BOPL) is
building the country’s first aromatics facility, which is expected to come on
line by the middle of 2013, a senior company executive said on Thursday. The
facility will produce about 100 KTa of benzene, 92 KTa of paraxylene (PX),
80 KTa of isomer-grade mixed xylene (MX) and 50 KTa of orthoxylene (OX), said
Mohammad Wasi Khan, president of chemical manufacturing at BOPL.
The plant will be located at the same site in the Hubco coastal area of
the Arabian Sea, which is about 50 km from Karachi, where Byco operates a 35.000
bbl/day refinery.
BOPL is also building a 120.000 bbl/day refinery at the same site and
expects to bring it on line in the fourth quarter of 2011, Khan said.
The new refinery will provide the naphtha feedstock needed for its
aromatics facility.
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