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10 April 2008

Russia's New Aromatics Unit

Kazakhstan's Atyrau Refinery company is planning to build an aromatics production unit in Atyrau, Russia due to be on stream in 2012. The aromatics unit estimated at $800 million would have a capacity of 500,000 tonnes/year of paraxylene (PX) and 130,000 tonnes/year of benzene situated in the new $5.2bn petrochemicals hub in Atyrau.

The petchem hub has the capability to produce 800,000 tonnes/year for polyethylene (PE) and 400,000 tonnes/year for polypropylene (PP).

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