Sibur to produce up to 50 kilotonnes of hexene in Russia
Posted on September 6, 2022
Russian petchem company Sibur will build a facility to produce up to 50,000 tonnes/year of hexene at the Nizhnemkamskneftekhim petrochemical plant’s olefins complex, said the company. Online since 2014, Energy, Oil & Gas (EOG) Asia, is a leading online source of industry-specific news and information, which covers key development updates (discoveries, exploration & drilling, deepwater & subsea production, etc.) Borealis/Axpo Nordic tie-up for wind energy for Swedish plant. Teijin to deploy power cogeneration at Japanese facility. Elix Polymers Spanish plant to use electricity consumption from renewable sources. Wanhua Chemical partners with Agilis for digital portal for TPUs. Mitsubishi Power completes mega power plant in Thailand. Air Liquide, Chevron, Keppel, and PetroChina to explore CCUS in Singapore. NextChem awarded EUR194 mn grant for Italy’s waste-to-hydrogen project. Azeri Central East drilling platform installed in the Caspian.Ineos awards contract to Atkins for low-carbon hydrogen plant at Grangemouth. (EOG) Asia, which has been online since 2014, is a leading online source of industry-specific news and information. It covers key development updates, such as discoveries, exploration and drilling, deepwater and subsea production, and so on. The waste-to-hydrogen project in Italy received a 194 million euro grant from NextChem. Mjn E-news FacebookSibur
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Russian petchem company Sibur will build a facility to produce up to 50,000 tonnes/year of hexene at the Nizhnemkamskneftekhim petrochemical plant’s olefins complex, said the company.
“Development of the technology and its piloting have been successful, and a decision was made to build this facility using in-house technology at Nizhnemkamskneftekhim,” according to Sibur head Mikhail Karisalov.
“This covers 125-130% of Sibur’s immediate demand, and what we used to buy in the UK and Germany. We expect to start pilot operation of this capacity within 18-20 months, and have it in our portfolio as a product from the end of 2024,” Karisalov said.
Hexene is used to produce polymers such as LDPE and HDPE. It is not currently produced in the former USSR, including in Russia, Karisalov said.
