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2005/10/2 Asia Chemical Weekly - BASF-YPC plans to expand the capacity of cracker to 750 kt in Nanjing.
Industrial source learned that BASF-YPC plans to expand its capacity of petrochemical complex by 25% to 750 kt/a from the current 600 kt/a. The expansion was expected to conduct in 2008-2009. It will be in line with the scheduled maintenance of the jv cracker. The cracker was first commissioned in April 2005, and began commercial production in June. Naphtha feedstock for the BASF-YPC cracker, estimated at 1.8-2.0 Mt/a, is mostly sourced by Sinopec Jinling refinery in Nanjing; and the rest of naphtha feedstock depends on imports.
Sinopec Jinling refinery plans to output 1.94 Mt of naphtha in 2005, and about 65% of the output will be supplied to the BASF-YPC complex. Jinling refinery has crude processing capacity of 13.5 Mt/a, it supply naphtha feedstock to BASF-YPC cracker by a pipeline.

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