Ineos Technologies (Lyndhurst / UK; www.ineos.com) is licensing its proprietary “Innovene” processes to India’s state-owned ONGC Petro additions Limited (OPaL, Dehradun / India; www.ongcindia.com) for use in a 340,000 t/y PP homopolymer, random and impact copolymer facility and two 360,000 t/y HDPE/LLDPE swing plants that will be part of a new petrochemical complex going up in Dahej Special Economic Zone – see Plasteurope.com of 03.09.2009. Start-up of the complex is targeted for December 2012.

P. K. Johri, CEO of OPaL, said the selection of a process for the polymers units was the result of “an exhaustive examination of competing technologies.” Last year, German engineering contractor Linde (Munich; www.linde.com) and Samsung Engineering (Seoul / Korea; www.samsungengineering.co.kr) were awarded a turnkey contract worth just over EUR 1 bn to build the cracker at the site, which will produce 1.1m t/y of ethylene and 400,000 t/y of propylene – see Plasteurope.com of 16.01.2009.