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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Operations were
stable last Thursday morning at Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s 340,000
barrel-per-day (bpd) joint-venture refinery in Deer Park, Texas, after the upper
Houston Ship Channel was closed by protesters from Greenpeace USA, reported Reuters with reference to a Shell
spokesman.
The Deer Park refinery is a 50-50 joint-venture between Shell
and Mexico’s national oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex). Shell is the
managing partner of the joint-venture.
Shell has three crackers at Deer
Park site with a combined ethylene capacity of 1,67 mln per year and
petrochemical plants.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing
polyethylene (PE) and polyprolypele (PP).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report,
Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 1,255,800 tonnes in the first seven
months of 2019, up by 9% year on year. Shipments of all PE grades increased. At
the same time, the estimated PP consumption in the Russian market was 796,120
tonnes in January-July 2019, up by 11% year on year. Shipments of PP block
copolymer and homopolymer PP increased.
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. |
