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News Release from: Davy Process Technology | Subject: LP Oxo PetroChina
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 November 2007
LP Oxo technology licensed to PetroChina
Sichuan
PetroChina Sichuan Petrochemical Co has chosen LP Oxo Selector 10 Technology for its new facility in Chengdu, capital city of the Sichuan Province, in the southwest of the Peoples Republic of China
LP Oxo Technology is cooperatively offered by Dow Technology Licensing, a business unit of the Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated affiliates and Davy Process Technology, a Johnson Matthey company The Sichuan plant will include the largest custom designed single line low pressure hydroformylation unit built anywhere in the world, with a design production of 338,000 metric tons per year of normal and iso-butyraldehydes
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 5 Dec 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new LP Oxo facility is part of a grass-root petrochemical complex that PetroChina centred on an 800,000 metric tons per year ethylene plant, which will be the largest in southwest China.
Dr Molly Zhang, business vice president of Dow Technology Licensing said, "Davy and Dow have a long-standing relationship with PetroChina that goes back nearly 30 years.
Our LP Oxo Technology is already in place at the PetroChina Daqing and Jilin facilities, and we are honored that they have once again chosen LP Oxo Technology for their new facility in Chengdu".
At the contract signing ceremony in Beijing, Dr David Tomlinson, president of Davy Process Technology, welcomed PetroChina Sichuan as the twenty-third LP Oxo licensee worldwide, and pointed out that the Sichuan Oxo project would not only result in a truly global scale investment, it would also be the third that PetroChina had awarded the Davy Process Technology and Dow LP Oxo collaboration.
The contract covers the license, process design, procurement and technical services and certain proprietary equipment and materials.
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