MOSCOW (MRC) -- Idemitsu Kosan, one of Japan’s largest refining and petrochemical companies, will be shutting its refinery for maintenance turnaround, reported Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Japan informed that the refinery will be shut in April 2015. It is likely to remain off-stream for around one month.
Located at Chiba in Japan, the refinery has a crude processing capacity of 220,000 bpd.
As MRC wrote previously, Idemitsu Kosan shut down a naphtha cracker in Japan for maintenance turnaround on September 9, 2014. The company restarted the plant's operations on 24 October. But then the cracker was unexpectedly shut down again during a start-up after the scheduled maintenance. In early November, the company began a gradual launch of production at the cracker.
Located at Tokuyama in Japan, the cracker has an ethylene capacity of 623,000 mt/year and propylene capacity of 450,000 mt/year.
Idemitsu Kosan is a Japanese petroleum company. It owns and operates oil platforms, refineries and produces and sells petroleum, oils and petrochemical products. The company runs two petrochemical plants in Chiba and Tokuyama. The two naphtha crackers can produce up to 997,000 tonnes of ethylene per year.
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