US ethylene production. Petral's survey results showed ethylene production from olefin plants averaged 148.6 million lb/day during third-quarter 2011 but declined to 144.8 million lb/day during ...

China's Sinopec has developed a steam-cracking technology to convert oil directly into high-demand petrochemical products such as ethylene and propylene, cutting costs and production times as well ...

The original FCCU, built in 1978, had a design capacity of 2 million tonnes/year (tpy) of vacuum distillate oil. In 1985, Sinopec revamped it to process atmospheric residue at a rate of 1.4 ...