PetroChina Sichuan Selects Dow and Aker Solutions for PP Project    

On July 29th, PetroChina Sichuan Petrochemical Co., Ltd. (PetroChina Sichuan) has selected UNIPOLTM Polypropylene Process Technology from Dow Technology Licensing for its new 450 KTA polypropylene facility in Chengdu, Sichuan province, and Aker Solutions will provide the process design and technical advisory services. The plant will be part of PetroChina Sichuan's 800 thousand t/a ethylene complex in Chengdu, due on-stream in 2010.
   PetroChina Sichuan is the fifth polypropylene plant in China to use UNIPOLTM Polypropylene Technology in the past two years. For Aker Solutions, this marks its fifth polyolefins project in China over the same time period.  
   With this facility and others being built in Fushun, Liaoning province and Qinzhou, Guangxi province, PetroChina will have nearly 1 million t/a of polypropylene capacity using UNIPOLTM Polypropylene Technology. Aker Solutions was awarded the contracts for basic engineering design and technical advisory services for each of the three plants.
   When this plant and others currently in the execution stage enter service, UNIPOLTM Polypropylene Technology will be used to produce nearly 11 million tons of polypropylene per year, which will represent more than 16% of total global capacity.