Agreement on construction of world's largest petrochemical facility signed

An agreement worth more than USD 13 billion has been signed between China National Chemical Engineering Group (CNCEC) and Russia’s RusGasDobycha to build a natural gas processing and chemical plant.

It is the largest ethylene integration project in the world, according to CNCEC chairman Dai Hegen.

He told China Central Television the contract is the biggest ever signed by a Chinese enterprise, RT reports.

The new contract includes construction of a natural gas processing chemical plant in a small town near Russia’s shores at the Gulf of Finland.

The plant will comprise two sets of ethylene cracking facilities with an annual capacity of 1.4 million tons. It will also have six sets of polyethylene facilities with an annual capacity of 480,000 tons.

China National Chemical Engineering Group

CNCEC

Rus Gas Dobycha

Dai Hegen

petrochemical factory

ethylene cracking facility

gas processing plant