MOSCOW (MRC) -- Total's French petrochemical complex in Feyzin will begin a planned, eight-week maintenance Tuesday, reported Apic-online with reference to the company's statement.
The maintenance will involve the 250,000 mt/year Feyzin cracker, as well as the butadiene, aromatics and ETBE units. The maintenance is to last until April 28.
The works will aim to increase safety, reduce energy consumption and improve environmental performance, the company said.
During the works at the petrochemical site, the refinery will continue to operate normally.
Total operates a 109,000 b/d refinery at Feyzin.
At the start of the maintenance, while the units are gradually halted, flaring, noise and smoke are possible, the company also said.
As MRC wrote previously, Total, Europe’s third-largest oil company, intends to invest EUR160m before 2016 to adapt its petrochemical platform in Carling, in the Lorraine region of eastern France, and to restore its competitiveness.
Besides, in early 2015, Total permanently shut down its high density polyethylene (HDPE) line in Belgium. The plant was shut permanently owing to weak margins which have arisen on account of cheap imports in the region. Located at Antwerp in Belgium, the line has a production capacity of 70,000 mt/year.
Total S.A. is a French multinational oil and gas company and one of the six "Supermajor" oil companies in the world with business in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia. The company's petrochemical products cover two main groups: base chemicals and the consumer polymers (polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene) that are derived from them.
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