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Shell Plans to Sell Petrochemical Assets

Chem Dive Team by Chem Dive Team
August 13, 2024
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Shell Plans to Sell Petrochemical Assets

Shell said on Wednesday it has agreed to sell its refinery and petrochemical property in Singapore, Asia’s important oil hub, to a joint task among Indonesian chemical substances firm Chandra Asri and Swiss miner and commodities trader Glencore.

Reuters said closing of August that Shell had employed Goldman Sachs to explore a capacity sale of its refining and petrochemical vegetation in Singapore as a part of a broader strategic evaluation globally to end up a decrease-carbon operator.

The sale is part of Shell CEO Wael Sawan’s plan to reduce the organization’s carbon footprint and awareness of its operations at the most worthwhile corporations.

The transaction will transfer all of Shell’s hobbies in Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Singapore to the joint mission company CAPGC, Shell said in an announcement.

The groups no longer provide value for the deal.

Subject to regulatory approval, the transaction is expected to be completed by way of the give-up of 2024, Shell introduced.

The customers of Shell’s assets on Bukom and Jurong islands would advantage of a foothold in one of the international’s pinnacle oil refining and trading centres however might also face opposition from more recent refineries in China and somewhere else – the Bukom facility opened in 1961 – as well as a Singapore carbon tax set to upward push sharply in 2024.

CAPGC is majority-owned and operated by Chandra Asri Group and minority-owned using Glencore through their respective subsidiary organizations, the Indonesian company said in a statement.

Shell’s belongings consist of a refinery able to process 237,000 barrels in step per day (bpd) of oil and a 1-million-metric-ton-in-keeping-with-year (tpy) ethylene plant placed on Bukom island, just south of Singapore, as well as a plant that produces mono-ethylene glycol on Jurong island in the Southeast Asian metropolis-nation’s west.

CAGP and Vitol were the very last bidders for the belongings after shortlisted Chinese corporations including country-run China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) dropped out.

Acquiring Shell’s plants in Singapore could provide Chandra Asri with naphtha feedstock for its cracker and permit the employer to integrate its petrochemical manufacturing with refining which could enhance its efficiency and reduce fees.

“Chandra Asri has been a main participant within the olefins and downstream space in Indonesia for many years, and has been trying to amplify its present-day portfolio within and outside Indonesia for decades … This foothold in the petrochemical hub of Southeast Asia will provide it leverage in increasing its ASEAN footprint and lift itself to be a virtually local participant,” said Wood Mackenzie’s international head of polyesters, Salmon Lee.

Chandra Asri operates Indonesia’s sole naphtha cracker, which could produce 900,000 lots of ethylene and 490,000 lots of propylene annually, fundamental raw materials which might be in addition processed on the complex into different petrochemicals.

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For Glencore, Shell’s property could provide the global trader a physical foothold for its trading in Asia.

Glencore’s most effective refining asset is a 100,000 bpd facility in Cape Town this is South Africa’s third-largest refinery. It also owns a lubricants plant in Durban.

A partnership with Glencore additionally means Chandra Asri can harness the buying and selling massive’s strengths in no longer most effective the buying and selling sphere but additionally, on the logistical front, Woodmac’s Lee introduced.

Shares of Chandra Asri Pacific rose as lots as 1.Nine%, outperforming the benchmark Indonesia index’s 0.5% drop on Wednesday afternoon. Its stocks have climbed 49% thus far this year, giving it a market fee of a few $42 billion, LSEG statistics confirmed.

Shell’s shares in London rose 0.1% and have climbed nearly 13% so far this 12 months. Last week the corporation smashed forecasts with a $7.7 billion first-zone profit buoyed with the aid of cost-cutting and its strategic shift.

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