Lotte Engineering & Construction has completed construction on the "Indonesia LINE Project."
Lotte Engineering & Construction said on the 10th that it held a completion ceremony for the Indonesia LINE Project on the 6th (local time) in Cilegon, Banten Province, Indonesia.
The LINE Project, with a total project cost of $3.95 billion (about 5.6 trillion won), is a project to build a mega-scale petrochemical complex on a site of about 990,000 square meters in the Cilegon area, located about 90 kilometers northwest of Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia.
With this completion, facilities have been established to stably produce a total of 1 million tons (t) of ethylene per year, 520,000 t of propylene (PL), 400,000 t of benzene, toluene and xylene (BTX), 250,000 t of polypropylene (PP), and 140,000 t of butadiene (BD), among others.
Among these, Lotte Engineering & Construction built production facilities for 400,000 t of BTX, 250,000 t of PP and 140,000 t of BD, as well as utility infrastructure and port facilities needed for plant operations.
On Oct. 15, the LINE Project began commercial operation. This comes about three years and six months after groundbreaking in April 2022. The LINE Project is the first NCC facility to operate in Indonesia, and until the project was completed, Indonesian manufacturers used naphtha imported from Korea, Malaysia and Singapore.
A Lotte Engineering & Construction official said, "By successfully wrapping up construction of the LINE Project, we proved Lotte Engineering & Construction's chemical plant engineering capabilities and project execution competence," and added, "We hope the completion of this LINE Project will help advance Indonesia's petrochemical industry."