The United States released “oil and gas journal” at the beginning of the July global ethylene capacity analysis report shows that in 2011 the global ethylene amount after capacity expansion, in 2012 the global ethylene expansion again since 2010 will exceed 6 million tons. As of 2011, the ethylene production capacity of 27 million 593 thousand tons, ranking first in the world.

In 2011 the world has 2 sets of new world-class ethylene plant put into operation. A set in Saudi Arabia, a capacity of 1 million 200 thousand tons / year; and a capacity of 1 million 300 thousand tons / year in Venezuela. While the same scale ethylene plant put into production in 2010 with a total of 8, the total production capacity of 8 million 650 thousand tons / year.

As of January 1, 2012 statistics, in 2011 the global ethylene production capacity reached 1.41 tons, an increase of more than 2010 2 million 500 thousand tons.