MOSCOW (MRC) -- JX Nippon Oil and Energy has restarted the No.1 crude distillation unit (CDU) at its Kashima refinery in Japan, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Japan informed that the 189,000 bpd CDU restarted on June 27, 2015. It was shut on May 29, 2015 following a fire at the Kashima refinery.
The Kashima refinery of JX Nippon has a crude processing capacity of 252,000 bpd.
As MRC wrote before, on January 6, 2015, Japan's JX Nippon Oil and Energy shut its olefins conversion unit (OCU) in Kawasaki indefinitely. The shutdown has been attributed to compressed margins in the wake of low propylene prices as compared to prices of ethylene.
The Nippon Oil Corporation, or NOC or Shin-Nisseki is a Japanese petroleum company. Its businesses include the exploration, importation, and refining of crude oil; the manufacture and sale of petroleum products, including olefines (ethylene, propylene) and aromatics.
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