MOSCOW (MRC) -- Gazprom neftekhim Salavat has shut down its polyethylene (PE) production for a scheduled maintenance, reported MRC analysts.
The plant's customers said Gazprom neftekhim Salavat took off-stream its PE production for a scheduled turnaround on 1 July. The plant's low density polyethylene (LDPE) production was shut for 30 days, whereas its high density polyethylene (HDPE) production was taken off-stream only for one week.
As reported earlier, Angarsk Polymers Plant (Rosneft) shut its LDPE production capacities for a long maintenance on 22 June. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Tomskneftekhim (SIBUR) postponed a turnaround from 15 July to 31 August, the outage is planned to last for two weeks.
OAO "Gazprom neftekhim Salavat" (formerly OAO "Salavatnefteorgsintez") is one of the leading petrochemical companies in Russia, carrying out a full cycle of processing hydrocarbon material. The list of products manufactured by the plant includes more than 140 items, including 76 grades of the main products: gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene, fuel oil, toluene, solvent, liquefied gases, benzene, styrene, ethylbenzene, butyl alcohols, phthalic anhydride and plasticizers, polyethylene, polystyrenes, silica gels and zeolite catalysts, corrosion inhibitors, elemental sulfur, ammonia and urea, glycols and amines, a wide range of household products made of plastics, surfactants and much more.
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