China based Sinopec has started operation of a 800,000 tons-per-year ethylene facility at its Zhanjiang refinery. The refinery is absed at the southern Chinese coastal city of Zhanjiang. The capacity of refinery is 200,000 barrel per day crude oil refining units in June.
Sinopec SABIC Tianjin Petrochemical Co. (SSTPC), a 50-50 joint venture of Sinopec and SABIC, completed the debottlenecking of its ethylene cracker on 11 July 2020, adding another 30,000 tons/year output to its current capacity. Followed the expansion, the Tianjin based plant become the country's largest compressor unit, producing 1.3 million tons of ethylene annually. Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
