OREANDA-NEWS. September 17, 2012. PetroChina Daqing Petrochemical Co. completed construction of a unit at its plant in northeastern China and raised the annual crude-processing capacity to 10 million metric tons, as per Bloomberg.

The project, with an investment of 1 billion yuan (USD157 million), involves adding a crude distillation unit with processing capacity of 6 million tons a year and will also help meet feedstock demand for a 1.2 mln tpa ethylene unit.

The expanded refinery is scheduled to start operations in October.