European Union and Russia

The individual cracking operations across the countries of the EU and their nameplate capacities are shown in Table 1.3. 

Russia has an annual nameplate ethylene production capacity of 3.49 million tonnes. The plants are scattered across Russia from European Russia to the Far East (Table 1.4). By world standards most plants are small with capacities of 400 kt/y or less. A cross section of feedstocks is used. 

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