MOSCOW (MRC) -- There was a process upset Tuesday at Total Petrochemicals and Refining USA's 1,224,700 mt/year polypropylene (PP) plant in La Porte, Texas, the company said in a regulatory filing, as per Plastemart.
The plant's Train 9 production unit flared on Tuesday for about three hours, according to the filing to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
As MRC reported earlier, Total's proposed new ethane cracker near its refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, is being designed to have a capacity of 1 million tpy, the company said in a permit application to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in 2015. Construction on the cracker was to start in June 2016, with operations starting three years later. The project would include seven ethane-cracking heaters. Total first mentioned the possible project in May 2013 and is currently looking for partners who could have ownership stakes and help with plant operations.
Total S.A. is a French multinational oil and gas company and one of the six "Supermajor" oil companies in the world with business in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia. The company's petrochemical products cover two main groups: base chemicals and the consumer polymers (polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene) that are derived from them.
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