MOSCOW (MRC) -- Saudi Arabia's PetroRabigh has taken off-stream its polypropylene (PP) plant for maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Saudi Arabia informed that the plant had been shut on October 11, 2015. The plant is likely to remain shut for around 50 days.
Located in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia, the plant has a production capacity of 700,000 mt/year.
As MRC reported earlier, in April 2015, Rabigh Refining & Petrochemical Co. (Petro Rabigh) received ownership of the Rabigh Phase II project from Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical, major shareholders in Petro Rabigh, and will now integrate the project into Petro Rabigh's existing refining and petrochemical complex in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia.
PetroRabigh, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Japan's Sumitomo Chemical, has an annual output capacity of 18 million tonnes of refined products and 2.4 million tonnes of petrochemicals. Thus, the complex currently has a cracker to produce 1.3-million t/y of ethylene and 900,000 t/y of propylene, as well as downstream production of polyethylene, polypropylene, propylene oxide, ethylene glycol and butene-1.
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