UPDATE: India's OPaL to offer prime PP cargoes to local market

Market sources reported this week ONGC Petro additions Limited has completed the trial run at its new PP plant and would start offering prime grade output to the market in the coming week. In early May, the company procured propylene feedstock from spot market for the trial run purpose while aiming to start commercial run at its cracker by September. 

Source from the producer informed, “PP output from the test run stand at about 2000 tons and we plan to offer to market next week. Our main focus is till on local ground; however, we do plan to export up to 40% of annual output once our plant is up for full production rate.”   

The newly developed petrochemical complex based in Dahej Special Economic Zone, Gujarat, India consist of a dual-feed cracker which produce 1.1 million ton/year of ethylene and 400,000 ton/year of propylene. The PP unit is designed to produce 340,000 ton/year, two HDPE/LLDPE swing units with total capacity of 720,000 tons/year and a stand-alone HDPE unit with capacity of 340,000 tons/year.