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Sasol commissions ethylene pipeline
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On 19th March 2007, Schleswig Holstein’s premier Peter Harry Carstensen couldn’t let the chance go by to press the button that officially put Sasol Germany’s new ethylene pipeline to Stade into operation.
The commissioning of the pipeline represents the completion of another section of ChemCoast’s planned pipeline network, and for the first time Germany is now connected to the existing eastern European pipeline network from Heide via Brunsbüttel, Stade and Böhlen all the way to the Czech Republic.
The 54 km-long Sasol pipeline opens up an additional supply route. Ethylene can now be purchased worldwide, brought to the harbour in Stade by sea and then transported to Brunsbüttel via the new pipeline, thus forming the basis for continued growth as well as assuring the future of the Sasol plant and its jobs in Brunsbüttel.
The pipeline is at the heart of an approximately 70 million Euro investment which Sasol announced in January, 2004. This investment involves updating and extending the production and refinement facilities for fatty alcohols and aluminium oxides. It includes a new spray drier and calcining kiln for producing new aluminium oxides, measures to improve ethylene yields and greater flexibility in the production of Ziegler alcohols. All of these projects will have been completed by the end of 2007. |
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