Announcement before approval of CNOOC Shell's investment of 52 billion 1.6 million tons of Phase III ethylene project

On May 5, the Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission announced the pre-approval of the China Overseas Shell Huizhou Phase III ethylene project.
According to the public information, the construction site of the project is located in the Petrochemical Industrial Park of Daya Bay Economic and Technological Development Zone, Huizhou City, with a construction period of 42 months.
The total investment is 52.
081 billion, mainly for the construction of 1.
6 million tons of ethylene and 18 sets of downstream chemical plants, public works and supporting facilities
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On December 14, 2020, the official website of CNOOC Shell released the first public information on the environmental impact assessment of the CNOOC Shell Huizhou Phase III ethylene project
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In May 2020, the "Cloud Signing" ceremony of the strategic cooperation framework agreement was held in Guangzhou, Beijing and The Hague, the Netherlands for the Phase III ethylene project of China Shipping and Shell Huizhou
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The project signed at that time was centered on a 1.
5 million ton/year ethylene cracking unit, including 14 sets of chemical units such as ethylene oxide/ethylene glycol, SMPO/POD, α-olefin, and polyα-olefin, which are omitted from this announcement.
There are differences
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Among them, alpha-olefin, poly-alpha-olefin and metallocene polyethylene technologies were applied for the first time in the Asia-Pacific region
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