MOSCOW (MRC) -- Thailand’s PTT Global Chemical (PTTGC) is likely to take off-stream its butadiene (BD) unit owing to technical issues at an upstream naphtha cracker, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Thailand informed that the unit is likely to be shut in April 2015. The shutdown of the BD unit has been attributed to the planned shutdown of an upstream cracker at the same site.
Located in Map Ta Phut, Thailand, the unit has a production capacity of 75,000 mt/year.
As MRC reported earlier, in 2013, Indonesian state-owned energy company Pertamina signed an agreement to purchase petrochemical products from PTT Global Chemical. The agreement serves as a pre-marketing strategy for Pertamina and PTT’s joint Indonesian petrochemical business. Under the agreement, PTT will deliver at least 5,000 tonnes of polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) products each month to Pertamina for sale in Indonesia.
Besides, Pertamina and PTTGC were to start joint shipments of PE to the Indonesian market from 1 July 2014, but they were posponed till September 2014.
PTT Global Chemical is a leading player in the petrochemical industry and owns several petrochemical facilities with a combined capacity of 8.45 million tonnes a year.
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