MOSCOW (MRC) -- CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Co (CSPC) has taken off-stream its No. 2 polypropylene (PP) unit in Guangdong, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that the company has halted operations at the unit on April 7, 2019 owing to technical issues. The plant is likely to remain shut for around 10 days.
Located at Huizhou in Guangdong province of China, the No. 2 PP unit has a production capacity of 400,000 mt/year.
As MRC wrote previously, a blast at CNOOC’s Huizhou refinery that killed one worker has not affected crude oil runs at the company’s biggest refinery. The blast, which also injured another worker, came during a trail start of one of the refinery’s secondary units on Feb. 18, 2019. The blast was caused by fuel gas exceeding safe limits at a steam furnace at the refinery’s partial oxidization coal-to-hydrogen plant, according to the document published on the official wechat account of China’s Chemical Safety Association.
CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Company Limited (CSPC) was established in late 2000. It has built and now operates a world-scale petrochemical complex in the Daya Bay Economic and Technological Development Zone, Huizhou, Guangdong Province. The joint venture partners are Shell Nanhai BV, a member of the Royal Dutch Shell Group, with a 50 per cent stake, and CNOOC Petrochemicals Investment Limited (CPIL), also with 50 per cent. CPIL is owned by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) (90%) and Guangdong Guangye Investment Group Company Limited(10%).
As an integrated petrochemical complex, the major facilities of the complex include 11 process units, steam and power generation and other utility provisions, storage and handling and shipping facilities, as well as environmental protection facilities. The heart of the complex is a world-scale cracker producing 950,000 tons per annum ethylene and 500,000 tons per annum propylene. In total, the complex produces some 2.7 million tons per annum of ethylene and propylene's derivative products to supply the domestic market.
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