MOSCOW (MRC) -- PetroRabigh, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Japan's Sumitomo Chemical, has brought on-stream its No.2 linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) unit following a prolong shutdown, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Saudi Arabia informed that the company has resumed operations at the unit early last week. The plant was taken off-stream for maintenance in early-October 2017.
Located in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, the No. 2 unit has a LLDPE production capacity of 350,000 mt/year.
As MRC wrote previously, PetroRabigh took off-stream its LLDPE plant in Saudi Arabia for maintenance from March 16 to late March 2016.
Located in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia, the LLDPE plant has a production capacity of 600,000 mt/year.
PetroRabigh, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Japan's Sumitomo Chemical, has an annual output capacity of 18 million tonnes of refined products and 2.4 million tonnes of petrochemicals. Thus, the complex currently has a cracker to produce 1.3-million t/y of ethylene and 900,000 t/y of propylene, as well as downstream production of polyethylene, polypropylene, propylene oxide, ethylene glycol and butene-1.
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