VOL. XLIII

No. 25

19-June-2000

OMAN

Polypropylene Plant Planned Next To Sohar Refinery

Oman intends to build a 300,000-ton/year polypropylene plant at a cost of $250mn next to a planned 75,000 b/d residue fluidized catalytic cracker (RFCC) in Sohar, 250km northwest of Muscat. Propylene will be sourced from the cracker. In the first stage, the plant will produce homopolymer grades, with the potential for expansion to include the production of copolymers. Chem Studies Corp has carried out a...