MOSCOW (MRC) -- Chandra Asri has brought on-stream its naphtha cracker following an unplanned shutdown, reported Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Indonesia informed that the cracker has resumed operations over the weekend and presently operating at around 50-55% of production capacity rates. It was taken off-stream on February 5, 2016 owing to a mechanical glitch.
Located at Cilegon in Indonesia, the ethylene cracker has a production capacity of 860,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed before, in March 2015, Barito Pacific's subsidiary Chandra Asri Petrochemical said it was planning to build a naphtha refinery at its Cilegon complex in Banten, Indonesia, with an estimated investment of USD740m. The company is now undertaking a one year preliminary study for the proposed project, which would reduce its reliance on naptha imports. Planned to be located on an 80ha area, the refinery is expected to produce 100,000 barrels of condensate a day, the equivalent of producing 2.5 million tonnes (Mt) of naphtha a year. The company plans to use 1.3Mt of naphtha as feedstock to produce olefins.
Chandra Asri Petrochemical (CAP) is the largest vertically integrated petrochemical company in Indonesia with facilities located in Ciwandan, Cilegon and Puloampel, Serang in Banten Province. CAP is Indonesia's premier petrochemical plant incorporating world-class, state-of-the-art technology and supporting facilities. At the heart of CAP lies the Lummus Naphtha Cracker producing high quality Ethylene, Propylene, Mixed C4, and Pyrolysis Gasoline (Py-Gas) for the Indonesian as well as regional export markets.
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