Chandra Asri Expanding Naphtha Cracker
Chandra Asri Expanding Naphtha Cracker
Toyo Engineering Gets Turnkey Contract
Toyo Engineering Gets Turnkey Contract Jakarta—
Chandra Asri Petrochemical (CAP) has announced plans to
invest an estimated $380-million in a 43% expansion of its
Cilegon, Banten, Indonesia, naphtha cracker.
The project will increase ethylene capacity to 860,000
t/y from 600,000 t/y, propylene to 470,000 t/y from 320,000
t/y, py-gas to 400,000 from 280,000 t/y and mixed C4 capacity
to 315,000 t/y from 220,000 t/y.
CAP has awarded Toyo Engineering a turnkey contract
for detailed engineering, procurement of equipment and
materials, and construction. Construction is scheduled to
begin during the 2013 third quarter, with completion and
the start of production in the fourth quarter of 2015.
Toyo built CAP’s existing naphtha cracker based on
Lummus technology in the 1990s and was also responsible
for the front-end engineering design for this project.
CAP said the expanded capacity will supply feedstock
for its polypropylene production and mixed C4 to subsidiary
Petrokimia Butadiene Indonesia’s butadiene plant.
With the availability of large quantities of py-gas, CAP
noted it will have the opportunity to build a benzene, toluene
and mixed xylene production unit.