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(ICIS) -- Taiwan’s Formosa Petrochemical
Corp (FPCC) will keep five facilities in Mailiao, including two pipelines, shut
for an indefinite period of time to ensure safe operations, following a string
of fires at the petrochemical complex, a company spokesperson said on
Wednesday.
These include a 700 KTa No 1 naphtha cracker, the propylene and hydrogen
pipelines attached to the cracker, a 540.000 bbl/day refinery and an 80.000
bbl/day residual desulphurisation (RDS) unit that were directly affected by the
fires, the FPCC spokesperson said.
FPCC’s 100 KTa epichlorohydrin (ECH) plant is due to be shut for a month
of maintenance in September, according to a company source.
FPCC’s sister companies, Formosa Plastics Corp (FPC), Formosa Chemicals
& Fibre Corp (FCFC) and Nan Ya Plastics are also due to submit the
maintenance schedules of their Mailiao facilities on 10 August.
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