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UPDATE 1-China's Sinopec completes test runs at Hainan ethylene plant

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(adds details on technology; comment on exports) SINGAPORE, Feb 22 (Reuters) - China's Sinopec Corp said on Wednesday it has completed trial runs at a one million tonnes-per-year ethylene plant in the southern Chinese province of Hainan that will boost exports.


The facility is part of a 28.6 billion-yuan ($4.15 billion) complex built at the site and is the second major petrochemical plant starting this year after a similar-sized facility was announced last week by PetroChina in Guangdong province. Sinopec is aiming to turn the Hainan complex into an export-oriented producer, with exports of downstream petrochemical products accounting for half its production by the end of 2025, the company said. It also operates a 184,000 barrels per day crude oil refinery at the same site. Sinopec said it has developed its own ethylene technology with plants capable of handling a wide range of feedstocks, allowing the refiner to process different types of crude oil.


Ethylene is a key building block of petrochemicals from plastics to chemical fibre.


($1 = 6.8918 yuan) (Reporting by Chen Aizhu; Editing by Tom Hogue and Elaine Hardcastle)

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