MOSCOW (MRC) -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s 340,000 bpd joint-venture Deer Park, Texas, refinery had no problems overnight and restarted a distillate hydrotreater, reported Reuters with reference to sources familiar with plant operations.
Refineries in the Houston area remained in operation through the first night of Tropical Storm Imelda’s passage across southeast Texas on 18 September, sources familiar with plant operations said on Wednesday.
Imelda, downgraded to a tropical depression, was slowly moving north with its center located in Houston’s northwestern suburbs, but the storm was dumping rain as far east as Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Eight refineries in Houston, Texas City and Sweeny can process a combined 2.5 million bpd of crude oil, equal to 13.6% of national refining capacity.
As MRC wrote before, 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. 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.
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