CP Chem shuts Pasadena HDPE plant

MOSCOW (MRC) -- Chevron Phillips Chemical (CP Chem) has taken off-stream its high density polyethylene (HDPE) plant at Pasadena in Texas, according to Apic-online.

A Polymerupdate source in the US informed that the company has halted operations at the plant on July 7, 2019 owing mechanical glitch. The exact duration of the unplanned outage could not be ascertained.

Located at Pasadena, Texas in the US, the PE plant has a HDPE production capacity of 930,000 mt/year.

As MRC reported previously, in June 2017, Chevron Phillips Chemical successfully completed a low viscosity polyalphaolefins (PAO) capacity expansion at its Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown, Texas. The 20% capacity expansion enables the company to meet the increasing demand for lubricants in automotive and industrial applications. Chevron Phillips Chemical develops and produces PAOs, marketed under the brand name Synfluid PAO, which are used for a variety of applications including engine oils, gear oils and greases.

Headquartered in San Ramon, California, Chevron Corporation is the the second-largest integrated energy company in the United States and among the largest corporations in the world. Chevron is involved in upstream activities including exploration and production, downstream activities including refining, marketing and transportation, and advanced energy technology. Chevron is also invested in power generation and gasification processes.

Phillips 66 is a diversified energy manufacturing and logistics company with a portfolio of integrated businesses: Midstream, Chemicals, Refining, and Marketing and Specialties. The company processes, transports, stores and markets fuels and products globally. Phillips 66 Partners, its master limited partnership, is an integral part of the portfolio.
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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Sinopec Luoyang Co has brought on-stream its Polypropylene (PP) unit following a planned outage, according to Apic-online.

A Polymerupdate source informed in China that the company has resumed operations at the unit on July 3, 2019. The unit was shut for maintenance on April 20, 2019.

Located at Luoyang, China, the PP unit has a production capacity of 140,000 mt/year.

As MRC reported earlier, in Jun 2019, SIBUR and Sinopec signed a number of agreements concerning the production and sale of petrochemicals.

China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, or Sinopec Limited is a Chinese oil and gas company based in Beijing, China. It is listed in Hong Kong and also trades in Shanghai and New York . Sinopec is the worlds fifth biggest company by revenue.
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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Sinopec Maoming Petrochemical, has brought on-stream, its No. 1. low density polyethylene (LDPE) 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 July 4, 2019. The plant was taken off-stream on June 27, 2019.

Located at Guangdong in China, the plant has a production capacity of 120,000 mt/year.

As MRC informed before, in Jun 2019, SIBUR and Sinopec signed a number of agreements concerning the production and sale of petrochemicals.

Sinopec Maoming Petrochemical Company (Maoming Company) - a subsidiary of Sinopec- is located in Maoming, Guangdong and was founded in May 1955. The company now has a crude oil processing capacity of 13.5 million t/a and an ethylene production capacity of 1 million t/a. Maoming Company has turned out to be a large-scale integrated refining and chemical enterprise with refining as the leading business and petrochemical sector as the mainstay.

China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, or Sinopec Limited is a Chinese oil and gas company based in Beijing, China. It is listed in Hong Kong and also trades in Shanghai and New York . Sinopec is the worlds fifth biggest company by revenue.
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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas coastal refineries operated by Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Chevron Corp were monitoring a developing weather disturbance in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico that may produce heavy wind and rain later this week, reported Reuters with reference to company spokesmen's statement.

"We’re just closely monitoring the forecast and preparing for a potentially high-wind and heavy-rain event," Shell spokesman Ray Fisher said.

Shell operates refineries in Convent and Norco, Louisiana, and jointly operates a refinery in Deer Park, Texas, with Mexico’s national oil company Petroleos de Mexicanos (Pemex).

Chevron operates refineries in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and Pasadena, Texas.

As MRC wrote previously, in April 2019, Royal Dutch Shell’s US unit said that it had made one of its biggest oil discoveries in the Blacktip deepwater well in the US Gulf of Mexico. Blacktip, operated by Shell and co-owned by US oil giant Chevron Corp, Equinor ASA and Repsol, is the company’s second material discovery in the Perdido Corridor.

Royal Dutch Shell plc is an Anglo-Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the biggest company in the world in terms of revenue and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors". Shell is vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading.
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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Extrusion machinery maker Reifenhauser Group has started construction on a new 3,000-square-meter production and assembly hall at its headquarters in Troisdorf, Germany, said Canplastics.

Scheduled for completion by spring 2020, the Troisdorf-based family-owned company is investing almost 7 million euros in the new building, which will house its newly founded Reifenhauser Extrusion Systems (RES) business unit, which supplies components for what the company calls “demanding” extrusion applications.

“From 2020, we will be producing 300 flat dies for plastic extrusion in the new production hall every year,” Uwe Gaedike, managing director of Reifenhauser Extrusion Systems, said in a statement.

The statement also said that Reifenhauser will invest an additional 10 million euros over the next five years on production machines and intelligent processes, to create conditions for Industry 4.0-capable manufacturing.

In total, the statement said, Reifenhauser is planning to invest between 40 to 45 million euros for growth measures at its German sites and at its North American headquarters in Wichita, Kansas.
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