MOSCOW (MRC) -- Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) has scheduled a planned turnaround at its Hazira manufacturing site, reported Hydrocarbonprocessing.
The cracker unit will be shut for a period of about 4 weeks, starting from the last week of September 2014.
This opportunity will be utilised to carry out other routine maintenance and turnaround activities to enhance productivity.
RIL’s crackers at other locations will continue at normal levels of operations. With advance planning and inventory management, impact on external sales is likely to be minimal.
As MRC informed previously, Reliance Industries is implementing a new project to source 1.5 million tpy of ethane feedstock from the US to feed its crackers in India.
"The shale gas industry in North America has grown exponentially in the past five years," Reliance said in a media release. "As a result, ethane has become the dominant feedstock for crackers replacing liquids."
Earlier, RIL said thay it will invest up to USD700 mln in its shale gas venture in the current fiscal and also ramp up spends under the USD13 bln capex programme in the petrochemical and refining business.
Reliance Industries is one of the world's largest producers of polymers. The company's polymer production in 2010-11 (polypropylene, polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride) made 4,094 kilo tonnes.
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