MOSCOW (MRC) --Japanese oil refiner Idemitsu Kosan Co is preparing to restart the 33,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) residue fluid catalytic cracker (RFCC) at Hokkaido refinery in northern Japan this week, reported Reuters with reference to senior company officials.
The company restarted the sole 150,000 bpd crude distillation unit (CDU) at Hokkaido refinery last month. It had been shut since Sept. 6 following a blackout caused by an earthquake.
After the restart of RFCC, the company plans to gradually raise the run rate of CDU to full, officials said on the sidelines of its announcement of its record-high profits in the six months ended Sept. 30.
As MRC wrote previously, Japan's Idemitsu Kosan shut its naphtha cracker for a maintenance turnaround in Japan from September 20, 2017, to end-October 2017. Located at Chiba in Japan, the cracker has an ethylene production capacity of 375,000 mt/year.
Idemitsu Kosan is a Japanese petroleum company. It owns and operates oil platforms, refineries and produces and sells petroleum, oils and petrochemical products. The company runs two petrochemical plants in Chiba and Tokuyama. The two naphtha crackers can produce up to 997,000 tonnes of ethylene per year.
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