MOSCOW (MRC) -- JX Nippon Oil and Energy is in plans to restart its fluid catalytic cracker (FCC) unit following a maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Japan said that the company has planned to resume operations at the unit on April 9, 2017. The unit was taken off-line for maintenance on March 10, 2017.
Located at Osaka in Japan, the FCC unit has a propylene production capacity of 70,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed previously, in June 2016, Petronas and JX Nippon Oil & Energy signed an agreement for the sale and purchase of equity in Petronas LNG 9 Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Petronas. Under the agreement, JX NOE will acquire a 10% in-terest in PL9SB, which owns the ninth liquefied natural gas (LNG) liquefaction train within the Petronas LNG complex in Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia. The 3.6-million-t/y state-of-the-art train, expected to begin commercial operations in the first quarter of 2017, will increase capacity at the Petronas LNG complex to 30-million t/y.
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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