Capuava Ethylene Plant, Brazil
Key Data:
Start year
1997
Project type
Ethylene plant expansion
Location
Capuava, Sao Paulao, Brazil
Estimated investment
$100m (latest $130m), cost of the new 500,000t/yr ethylene plant is unknown
Completion
2000 and 2008 (other projects completed in 2004)
Key Players:
Sponsors
Petroquímica União
Financing
Petroquímica União
Contractors
GE oil and gas, Emerson
Output chemicals (tonnes/year):
500,000t/yr currently (2007), but by second quarter of 2008 700,000t/yr and by 2010 a new plant by the side of the original will give a total of 1.2 million tonnes per year
