The Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex (SEPC) will be the Shell Group’s largest ever petrochemicals investment in Singapore. The facility will include a new world-scale ethylene cracker and what may be the world’s largest mono-ethylene glycol plant. |
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The scope of the project includes modifications and additions to the Shell Bukom refinery, a new world-scale 800,000 tonnes per annum ethylene cracker and a 155,000 tonnes per annum butadiene extraction unit on Bukom Island, plus a 750,000 tonnes per annum MEG plant on Jurong Island. The MEG plant will be one of the largest in the world and will utilise Shell proprietary technology.
Strategic location
Singapore is already Shell’s largest petrochemical production and export centre in the Asia Pacific region. SEPC will be strategically located to take advantage of existing infrastructure and to ensure maximum benefits are achieved by integrating the petrochemical site with the Bukom refinery. This will deliver advantaged feedstocks, operating benefits and valuable by-products.
Close proximity to markets and customers will ensure that cost efficiency and competitiveness are passed down the value-chain.
Project progress
With construction work beginning in October 2006, the project is on-track to start up operations in 2009/2010. On 22 March the first piles were driven into the ground on both Pulau Bukom and Jurong Island. More substantive on-site construction is expected to start in mid-2007.
