MOSCOW (MRC) -- Indonesia's Chandra Asri shut down its butadiene extraction unit at Cilegon, Banten province, late Sunday due to technical issues, a source close to the company said Wednesday, as per Apic-online.
The shutdown will last for at least 10-12 days, the source added.
The extraction unit can produce 100,000 mt/year of butadiene, using 315,000 mt/year of mixed C4 supplied by the company's naphtha-fed steam cracker at the same location.
As a result of the shutdown, market sources said Chandra Asri has sold its crude C4 feedstock since it cannot be processed by the extraction unit.
Petrokimia Butadiene Indonesia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Chandra Asri, operates the unit.
As MRC reported before, in September 2016, Chandra Asri signed an agreement with Univation Technologies, LLC, located in the United States, to use the UNIPOL PE Progress for a new world scale 400,000 tpa polyethylene (PE) plant at its integrated naphtha cracker complex in Cilegon, Banten. The agreement covers process design package, including licence, to produce linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE), high density polyethylene (HDPE) and metallocene LLDPE (mLLDPE). This commitment is a major milestone in CAP's strategic plan to build a new PE plant with final investment decision expected by mid 2017 and now CAP is doing a process design package (PDP).
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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