MOSCOW (MRC) -- PetroChina Daqing Petrochemical has restarted operations at a linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) plant following a brief maintenance, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that the company has resumed operations at the plant on March 8, 2018. The plant was taken off-stream for maintenance on March 5, 2018. Currently, the plant is operating at normal rates.
Located in Daqing, China, the plant has a LLDPE production capacity of 60,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed previously, PetroChina has nearly doubled the amount of Russian crude being processed at its refinery in Dalian, the company’s biggest, since January 2018, as a new supply agreement has come into effect. The Dalian Petrochemical Corp, located in the northeast port city of Dalian, is expected to process 13 million tonnes, or 260,000 bpd of Russian pipeline crude this year, up by about 85 to 90 percent from last year’s level. Dalian has the capacity to process about 410,000 bpd of crude. The increase follows an agreement worked out between the Russian and Chinese governments under which Russia’s top oil producer Rosneft will supply 30 million tonnes of ESPO Blend crude to PetroChina in 2018, or about 600,000 bpd. That would represent an increase of 50 percent over 2017 volumes. The additional oil sent to Dalian is about 120,000 bpd and will make up the bulk of the Russian increases.
PetroChina Company Limited, is a Chinese oil and gas company and is the listed arm of state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation, headquartered in Dongcheng District, Beijing. It is China's biggest oil producer.
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