# Hengyi Petrochemicals plans $13.65B second phase of Brunei petrochemical project

China's Hengyi Petrochemicals plans to build a 1.65 million tons/year ethylene plant, a 2.5 million tons/year PTA unit, a 280,000 barrels/day refinery, and a 2 million tons/year PX facility in the second phase of its project in Pulau Muara Besar, Brunei. Construction may take three years.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2020-09-16
- Where: Pulau Muara Besar, Brunei, Brunei
- Value: $13.7B
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 1.65 million tons/year ethylene, 2.5 million tons/year PTA, 280,000 barrels/day refinery, 2 million tons/year PX
- Products: ethylene, PTA, refined petroleum, paraxylene
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md), [Plastics and Polymers](https://endata.com/sectors/plastics-polymers.md)

## Companies

- [Hengyi Petrochemicals](https://endata.com/companies/49945.md)

## Sources

- [chemorbis.com](https://www.chemorbis.com/en/plastics-news/China-Hengyi-to-build-ethylene-PTA-units-in-Brunei-project/2020/09/16/799114), 2020-09-15: "To cost $13.65 billion, the second phase also includes building a 280,000 barrels/day refinery and a 2 million tons/year PX facility at the complex in Pulau Muara Besar."

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