MOSCOW (MRC) -- CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Co (CSPC) has planned to restart its No. 2 polypropylene (PP) unit in Guangdong, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that the company is likely to resume production at the unit on December 15, 2019.
The plant was shut for unplanned maintenance on December 1, 2019, and was initially supposed to come back on-line on 5 December, 2019.
Located in Guangdong province of China, the No. 2 PP unit has a production capacity of 400,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed earlier, CSPC took off-stream it No. 2 PP unit in Guangdong province on April 7, 2019, owing to technical issues. The plant remained idle for around 10 days.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, the estimated PP consumption in the Russian market in January-October 2019 totalled 1,066,520 tonnes, up by 7% year on year. Supply of block copolymers of propylene (PP block copolymer) and homopolymer of propylene (homopolymer PP) increased, demand for statistical copolymers (PP random copolymer) decreased.
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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