MOSCOW (MRC) -- Petronas and Yayasan Hartanah Bumiputera Sarawak (YHBS) have signed an agreement and a memorandum of understanding (MoU) as part of commitment to support the development and growth of the petrochemical industry in Sarawak, as per Plastemart.
The move was in line with the state government’s aspiration to advance the state as a petrochemical hub and to add value to the state’s natural gas resources. The first agreement relates to the key terms for the supply of 140 mmscfd of natural gas to YHBS’ proposed methanol plant in Tanjung Kidurong, Bintulu that will produce methanol and methanol derivatives. The key terms include the price, volume and period of gas supply by Petronas to YHBS. The agreement is a prelude to the gas sales agreement (GSA) to be signed by Petronas and YHBS at a later date.
At the same event, Petronas chemicals Marketing (Labuan) Ltd (PCML) and YHBS also signed an MoU on a sale and purchase agreement for methanol produced by YHBS’ proposed Tanjung Kidurong methanol plant. Signing on behalf of PCML was its chief executive officer Akbar Md Thayoob and witnessed by the company’s head of marketing and sales (methanol), Shahrom Muhammad Yusuf. YHBS was represented by Abdul Aziz and witnessed by Muhammad Abdullah.
As MRC reported before, in December 2015, Petronas awarded the Johor port operatorship for its Refinery and Petrochemicals Integrated Development (RAPID) project to Johor Port Bhd (JPB). As the port operator, JPB will manage the operations and logistics functions at the material offloading facility (MOLF) for Petronas’ Refinery and Petrochemicals Integrated Development (RAPID) project in Pengerang.
Petronas plans to build a C6-based metallocene linear LDPE plant and a low density polyethylene (LDPE)/ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) swing plant at its greenfield integrated refinery and petrochemical complex in southern Johor state by mid-2019. The proposed metallocene LLDPE will have a capacity of 350,000 tpa, while the LDPE/EVA will have a capacity of about 150,000 tpa. The two plants are part of Petronas' planned Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development project in Pengerang at Johor. RAPID includes a 300,000 bpd refinery and a petrochemical complex with a 3 million tpa steam cracker, and is expected to come onstream in mid-2019. The petrochemical complex will have the capacity to produce 7.7 million tpa of petrochemical products.
Petronas, short for Petroliam Nasional Berhad, is a Malaysian oil and gas company wholly owned by the Government of Malaysia. The Group is engaged in a wide spectrum of petroleum activities, including upstream exploration and production of oil and gas to downstream oil refining; marketing and distribution of petroleum products; trading; gas processing and liquefaction; gas transmission pipeline network operations; marketing of liquefied natural gas; petrochemical manufacturing and marketing; shipping; automotive engineering; and property investment.
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