MOSCOW (MRC) -- Sinopec Yanshan Petrochemical (part of Sinopec) has restarted its No. 2 low density polyethylene (LDPE) plant in Beijing, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that the company has resumed operations at the plant on April 14, 2019. The plant was shut for maintenance on March 19, 2019.
Located in Beijing, China, the plant No. 2 LDPE plant has a production capacity of 70,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed previously, in September 2018, Sinopec Corp joined a group planning to build an oil refinery in Alberta, an enterprise that would strengthen demand for the Canadian province's heavily discounted crude. Thus, state-owned Sinopec, formally known as China Petroleum & Chemical Corp, along with an Alberta indigenous group, China State Construction Engineering Corp and Alberta management company Teedrum, plan to build a refinery to process 167,000 barrels per day of crude into gasoline and other products.
China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation or Sinopec Limited is a Chinese oil and gas company based in Beijing, China. Sinopec's business includes oil and gas exploration, refining, and marketing; production and sales of petrochemicals, chemical fibers, chemical fertilizers, and other chemical products; storage and pipeline transportation of crude oil and natural gas; import, export and import/export agency business of crude oil, natural gas, refined oil products, petrochemicals, and other chemicals.
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