ROYAL Dutch Shell Plc, Europe's biggest oil company, said it's 'on track' to start up its Singapore petrochemicals complex at the end of this year, Bloomberg news reported.

The company's schedule for starting up the complex in phases 'remains unchanged,' said Oh Yam Chew, a spokesman for Shell in Singapore on Monday.

The complex is Shell's largest single investment in Asia, and will includes the capacity to produce 800,000 metric tons of ethylene and 750,000 metric tons of mono-ethylene glycol a year.

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