Nova, Carbide file for cracker and PE permits
Nova chemicals has filed for regulatory permits for a 2-billion lbs/year joint venture cracker with Union Carbide to be built at Nova`s complex at Joffre, AB. Officials at Joffre expect to have permits for the project by April 1997 and anticipate breaking ground next September or October. Startup is slated for 2000. The C$825-million ($600 million) plant will increase on-site ethylene capacity to 5 billion lbs/year. Downstream, Carbide has filed for permits for a 1.2-billion lbs/year Unipol-process linear low-density polyethylene plant to be built at its Prentiss site, a few miles northeast of Joffre. Prentiss plant manager Cory Kaminsky says he hopes to have permits for that project by mid-1997. {open_quotes}We need to be ready with the polymer plant when the cracker comes onstream,{close_quotes} he says. {open_quotes}We don`t want to have to hold back that plant or have to flare ethylene.{close_quotes} 1 fig.
- OSTI ID:
- 530439
- Journal Information:
- Chemical Week, Journal Name: Chemical Week Journal Issue: 45 Vol. 158; ISSN 0009-272X; ISSN CHWKA9
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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