PetroChina Guangdong gears up for PE production after getting ethylene

PetroChina Guangdong PC announced that the ethylene plant, a 10-million-ton refining and chemical integration project, has successfully produced on-spec products and entered the stage of comprehensive trial production on Feb 12. PetroChina Guangdong Petrochemical Refining and Chemical Integration Project, located in Jieyang, Guangdong Province, covers an area of 920 hectares, with crude oil refining production capacity of 20 million mt/year  aromatics capacity 2.6 million tons/year and ethylene capacity 1.2 million tons/year.

The successful trial production of ethylene plant ensures the stable output of naphtha LPG products in the upstream refinery unit, and provides stable feedstock for downstream polyethylene plant, so as to ensure the overall stable operation of refining and chemical integration.

The 400kt/year HDPE plant and 800kt/year HDPE/LLDPE plant of PetroChina Guangdong PC plan to put into production in early 2023.