Vietnam’s Long Son Petrochemical is on track to start-up in 2022
Vietnam’s Long Son Petrochemical is on track to start-up in 2022
According to market sources, SCG Thailand is on track to start-up its wholly own petrochemical complex in Vietnam by August 2022. The Long Son Petrochemical complex is a fully integrated petrochemical plant with a steam cracker that uses both naphtha and LPG as feeds. Commercial production is slated for the first quarter of 2023.
The following table details the capacity of main products the producer produces:
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Product |
Nameplate Capacity (tons/year) |
Maximum Capacity (tons/year) |
Technology |
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Combined and reported by CommoPlast |
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Ethylene |
950,000 |
1,144,318 |
Technip Stone & Webster Process Technology |
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Propylene |
400,000 |
481,800 |
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HDPE |
450,000 |
602,000 |
Mitsui Chemicals |
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LLDPE |
500,000 |
602,000 |
Univation Technologies |
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PP |
400,000 |
554,000 |
Mitsui Chemicals |
Long Son Petrochemical has signed an agreement with Qatar International Petroleum to supply propane and naphtha for the cracker, while PetroVietnam subsidiary PV GAS will supply ethane.
The complex houses three floating roof tanks, nine dome roof tanks, 12 spherical tanks, and four double-wall tanks to store feedstock, finished product, by-product, and intermediate product. It also has its own port facility and pipeline used for importing feeds.
Several Vietnamese companies confirmed that the producer has been meeting with major domestic players to discuss distributorship for the new output.