BP planning new PTA plant in Belgium
27 Mar 2003
BP announced today that it has begun detailed engineering design for the construction of a new world-scale purified terephthalic acid (PTA) production plant at its Geel petrochemicals site in Belgium.
The design for the new plant will be carried out by Technip Italy (the engineering centre for the Technip-Coflexip Group) over the next nine months.
Subject to final BP and other approvals, the company anticipates construction on the new plant would begin in 2004 with the plant coming on stream in early 2006.
Output from the plant will be primarily targeted at the European market, particularly at fast-growing European polyethylene terephthalate (PET) production.
The new PTA unit will bring Geel’s total PTA production capacity to approximately 1.7 million tonnes a year.
