Hengyi Industries selects Univation’s technology for new polyethylene project in Brunei
By Mary Page Bailey |
February 1, 2021
Hengyi Industries Sdn. Bhd., has selected Univation Technologies’ (Houston) UNIPOL PE Process for its world-scale 600,000-ton/yr polyethylene (PE) plant to be located in Palau Muara Besar, Brunei. The new PE plant will be integrated into a larger refinery and petrochemicals project centered on a 14-million metric tons/year (280,000 bbl/d) crude oil refinery that will include 11.2 million metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of downstream capacity producing ethylene, benzene, para-xylene, ethylene glycol (EG), purified terephthalic acid (PTA), polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and polyethylene terephthalate (PET, polyester). The project will also include capacity to produce 6.33 million m.t./yr of fuels.