India's ONGC start up new cracker production

India’s ONGC Petro additions Limited (OPaL) has sucessfully started up its cracker since yesterday (22 November 2016).

A source closed to the company informed about the expectation of on-spec upstream monomers to be produced within this month and on-spec polyolefins are expected by December.

The newly developed petrochemical complex based in Dahej Special Economic Zone, Gujarat, India also consist of a cracker which produce 1.1 million ton/year of ethylene, 400,000 ton/year of propylene. The PE plant houses 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 and the PP plant has a production capacity of 340,000 ton/year.

OPaL is a joint venture of Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) (26%), Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) (17%) and Gujarat State Petroleum Corp. (GSPC) (5%), with the balance held by other investors and public shares.