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Award-winning OMEGA technology start-up at major petrochemicals project in Singapore.
Innovative monoethylene-glycol (MEG) technology lies at the heart of a newly completed, integrated refinery and petrochemicals complex in Singapore. The Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex (SEPC) is Shell’s largest petrochemicals project to date and will enhance the supply of petrochemicals to the growing Asian market.
The project, which involved building new chemical plants and upgrading a refinery, was a huge engineering feat that, at the peak of construction, involved more than 15,000 people from more than 20 countries. The refinery is integrated with a new ethylene cracker on Bukom Island off the coast of Singapore and linked to a chemicals complex on Jurong Island by pipelines.
The MEG plant on Jurong Island is supplied with feedstock from the ethylene cracker. The plant has a production capacity of 750,000 tonnes per annum (nearly 6% of Asia’s demand for MEG), and provides raw materials for the expanding packaging and textile industries in the region. The plant uses the award-winning OMEGA (Only MEG Advantage) technology developed by Shell Global Solutions.