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MOSCOW (MRC) -- A fire broke out at a
motor control center transformer at South Korean producer GS Caltex's refinery
and petrochemical complex at Yeosu early Wednesday morning, reported Apic-online with reference to market
sources.
This has led to the shutdown of the No. 2 continuous catalytic
reformer, the sources added.
A source close to the company said that a
Parex unit, which separates paraxylene from mixed xylenes, was also shut, while
the toluene disproportionation unit and other toluene-to-PX units were operating
as usual. If the No. 2 CCR, one of two CCRs, remains shut for a long time, the
company would have to consider cutting the operating rates of the TDP unit and
other toluene-to-PX units as well, the source said.
The company refused
to comment, only saying that it was waiting for a detailed report from the plant
management. It could only comment after receiving the report, the company source
said.
As MRC informed before,
in 2013, CB&I was awarded a contract by GS Caltex for the license,
basic engineering and catalyst supply for a new paraxylene (PX) unit to be built
in Yeosu, Korea. The unit will use the BP paraxylene technology, exclusively
licensed by CB&I, and will have a world-scale design capacity.
Start-up was expected in 2016. |
