South Korean refiner S-Oil kicks off Shaheen project with world’s biggest naphtha-fed steam cracker

South Korean oil refiner S-Oil Corp. launched its large-scale Shaheen refinery-integrated petrochemical plant project March 9, with construction of the world’s biggest naphtha-fed steam cracker with the capacity to produce 1.8 million mt/year of ethylene expected to be completed by 2026. S-Oil held a ground-breaking launch ceremony March 9 for the country’s biggest ever petrochemical project. South Korea’s third largest…