Wit Ventures: nova chemicals

Monday, 27 June 2016

Sarnia-Lambton 'Prime Focus' for Billion-dollar plant.

From Melanie Irwin, Blackburn News.

A Nova Chemicals executive says Sarnia-Lambton is the primary focus for a potential new world-class polyethylene facility.

Regional Manufacturing Director Tom Thompson says right now they’re calling the Sarnia-Lambton location their base case but they’re always evaluating other alternatives as well.

Initially, the U.S. Gulf Coast was also said to be in the running.

“We’re on a phased journey to continue to develop our assets in the region,” he says.

“Really it started back in 2011 when we undertook a $250-million conversion of our Corunna cracker that allowed us to crack ethane sourced from the Marcellus Shale Basin. Right now we’re in the process of doing further upgrades, at the Corunna facility, to allow us to crack 100% ethane and bring in an alternate source from the Utica Shale Basin in Ohio.”

He says engineering and study work continues for the proposed polyethlene plant, coupled with the “de-bottlenecking’ work to increase production at its Moore site.

Thompson says the new plant would be an investment in the range of $1-billion to $2-billion dollars.

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$400-million Upgrade for Nova Chemicals Corruna Plant.

Photo by Luigi Chiesa, (Wiki.)

(From the Sarnia Observer)

A $400-million upgrade at Nova Chemicals' Corunna plant has received the green light.

The company's board of directors recently gave its final approval for Nova to invest into creating a pipeline connection to a second source of natural gas liquids, originating in the eastern U.S. shale region, and to convert the Corunna site's cracker to use up to 100-per-cent ethane feedstock.
Work is scheduled for 2017 and 2018.

“It's great news for the community, Nova and Nova employees,” said Tom Thompson, regional manufacturing director for the company.

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The value of the capital work planned for this year hasn't been disclosed by the company.

Nova Chemical's board has also endorsed continued engineering work on a potential new polyethylene plant that could be built in Sarnia-Lambton, and tied to expansion at the Corunna site designed to boost its ethylene output by 50 per cent.

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