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Photo: BLYB Steam Cracker showing its eigth furnaces (Source).

1^st Sep 2020: The facility includes a 1.1 million metric ton per annum flexible naphtha / LPG cracker and associated polyethylene production capacity of 800,000 metric tons per annum and 600,000 metric tons per annum of polypropylene. (Source)

28^th Jul 2020: The official start-up has been scheduled for 2 August ../.. The cracker ../.. has 1.1mn t/yr of ethylene and 690,000 t/yr of propylene capacity ../.. Bora LyondellBasell's new cracker will run partly on merchant propane, which is estimated to make up around 44% of its cracker feed slate. The remaining 56% will mainly comprise naphtha and a small amount of light hydrocarbons from Bora's 140,000 b/d Panjin refinery. (Source)

2020: The steam cracker will use naphtha and LPG as feedstock, with 1.65 MMt/y of naphtha and refnery LPG sourced locally from Liaoning Bora's subsidiary Panjin North Asphalt Fuel, while 1.1 MMt/y of propane and butane will be bought from overseas, according to a company statement on Tuesday. (Source)