|
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. |
