MOSCOW (MRC) -- CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Co (CSPC) has shut its polypropylene (PP), high density polyethylene (HDPE) and low density polyethylene (LDPE) plants, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that all the units were taken off-stream over the weekend on account of severe cold weather. The plant is likely to remain shut for about 7-8 days.
Located in Nanhai, Guangdong province of China, the PP plant has a production capacity of 260,000 mt/year, HDPE plant has a production capacity of 240,000 mt/year and LDPE plant has a production capacity of 250,000 mt/year.
As MRC wrote previously, in the second half of October 2015, CSPC shut its naphtha cracker for a maintenance turnaround. The plant remain off-stream for around 7 weeks. Located at Huizhou in Guangdong province, China, the cracker has a production capacity of 950,000 mt/year.
CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Company Limited (CSPC) was established in late 2000. It has built and now operates a world-scale petrochemical complex in the Daya Bay Economic and Technological Development Zone, Huizhou, Guangdong Province. The joint venture partners are Shell Nanhai BV, a member of the Royal Dutch Shell Group, with a 50 per cent stake, and CNOOC Petrochemicals Investment Limited (CPIL), also with 50 per cent. CPIL is owned by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) (90%) and Guangdong Guangye Investment Group Company Limited(10%).
As an integrated petrochemical complex, the major facilities of the complex include 11 process units, steam and power generation and other utility provisions, storage and handling and shipping facilities, as well as environmental protection facilities. The heart of the complex is a world-scale cracker producing 950,000 tons per annum ethylene and 500,000 tons per annum propylene. In total, the complex produces some 2.7 million tons per annum of ethylene and propylene's derivative products to supply the domestic market.
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