In 2015, Shell announced it has successfully upgraded its Singapore Ethylene Cracker Complex (ECC), bolstering the company’s largest refining-chemicals integrated site. It forms part of a group of southern islands that have been identified for petrochemical and other industrial manufacturing.Įthylene Cracker Complex capacity expansion Feedstock flexibility helps the site maximise returns as economics shift between hydrocarbon streams, and more importantly, provides greater security of supply for Shell’s customers.īukom is situated on a 243-hectare island 5.5 km southwest of Singapore. Integrating the refining and petrochemicals assets maximise the economic and efficiency benefits in terms of feedstocks, operations and logistics. With the completion of the Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex (SEPC) project in May 2010, Bukom is now an integrated oil and petrochemicals site, with manufacturing facilities for fuels, lubricant base oils and specialty chemicals. It is also home to a world-class Ethylene Cracker Complex (up to a million tonnes per annum) and a Butadiene Extraction Unit (155,000 tonnes per annum). Today, Bukom has developed into one of the most important Shell production sites in the world.īukom is the largest wholly-owned Shell refinery globally in terms of crude distillation capacity (500,000 barrels per day). Its long history in Singapore began in Pulau Bukom. Shell has been in Singapore for more than 120 years, and it is one of the largest foreign investors in the country.

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