PARIS, FRANCE: Total SA’s refining and chemicals platform in Antwerp has started up production of ethylene using ethane feedstock, which is extracted from natural gas and is significantly cheaper than oil-derived feedstock. The investment in Antwerp makes the site more flexible and opens access to the most competitive feedstock, it said.
Total has invested nearly $60 million to revamp one of the platform’s two steam crackers and to adapt the site’s terminal to enable the import of 200,000 tonnes of ethane per year by ship from Norway.
The project optimizes supply by providing flexibility to use either ethane, butane or naphtha as feedstock; advantaged feedstock could therefore account for more than 50 percent of supply. The platform upgrades are expected to be completed in the second half of 2017. Read more.
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