MOSCOW (MRC) -- Shell is in plans to restart a naphtha cracker following maintenance turnaround, said Apic-online.
A source in Germany informed that the cracker is likely to be restarted in mid-December 2014. It was shut in mid-October 2014.
Located at Wesseling in Germany cracker, which has the capacity to produce 260,000 tonnes a year of ethylene, is shutting from 16 October, with a restart date around 5-6 December.
As MRC wrote before, Shell’s 115,000 tonnes/year BD unit in Moerdijk, the Netherlands is expected to resume production in the course of 2015. The unit has been down since early October because of a steam leak which affected the whole site.
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