亚洲甲基叔丁基醚面临供应过剩

据ICIS网站12月31日新加坡报道 亚洲甲基叔丁基醚（MTBE）的供应将在2020年进一步过剩，马来西亚和中国的两个新工厂预计很快将实现按额定产能生产。

边佳兰炼油和石化公司（PRefChem）目前正在马来西亚柔佛75万吨/年MTBE工厂进行试运行。浙江石化则在15万吨/年的MTBE工厂进行试运行，预计2019年底或2020年1月初将实现达标生产。

一旦其30万桶/日的综合原油炼油厂和石化厂在柔佛运行，马来西亚将成为出口甲基叔丁基醚和高辛烷值汽油产品的国家。

甲基叔丁基醚用作汽油中的辛烷增压剂。

2019年，亚洲新增MTBE产能122万吨/年。

王磊 摘译自 ICIS

原文如下：

Asia MTBE faces supply glut as Malaysia, China plants start up

Asia's supply of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) will further lengthen in 2020, with two new plants in Malaysia and China expected to achieve align="justify">Pengerang Refining and Petrochemical (PRefChem) is currently carrying out trial runs at its 750,000 tonnes/year MTBE plant in Johor, Malaysia; while Zhejiang Petrochemical is conducting test runs at its 150,000 tonne/year unit, with align="justify">Malaysia will turn into an exporter of MTBE and high-octane gasoline products align="justify">MTBE is used as an octane booster in gasoline.

In 2019, Asia added 1.22m tonnes/year in new MTBE capacity.