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(Plastemart) -- Formosa
Petrochemical Corp has restarted operations at its 700,000 tpa No. 1 naphtha
cracker at 65% capacity. The cracker has been shut down since a fire on May 12,
as per Reuters. It will a matter of a less than a week that the cracker will
start running at full tilt.
A 1.2 mln tpa No. 3 cracker has been shut for a 40-45 days maintenance in
mid-August, while its No. 2 cracker is running at full-tilt. Its 540,000 bpd
refinery was completely shut following a separate fire in end-July. Run rate at
the refinery has been restored to nearly 75%, after restarting its three crude
units in stages. However, one of its two 84,000 bpd residual fluid catalytic
cracker (RFCC) is still shut and will not restart this month because another
fire on Sept. 6 at an alkylate unit has caused it to conduct additional safety
checks.
mrcplast.com
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