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MOSCOW (MRC) -- SKGC's joint
venture Sinopec-SK Wuhan Petrochemical plans to restart its naphtha-fed steam
cracker in Wuhan in the second-half of December as scheduled after the
turnaround and debottlenecking, reported S&P Global with reference to the
source's statement.
The cracker was shut down in October, S&P Global
Platts reported previously.
SK Wuhan's steam cracker is able to produce
800,000 mt/year of ethylene and 400,000 mt/year of propylene.
After the
debottlenecking, the cracker's ethylene production capacity will be increased to
1.1 million mt/year and propylene capacity to 550,000 mt/year.
The
company will add a new 60,000 mt/year butadiene unit at the plant.
As
MRC informed
earlier, South Korea's SK Global Chemical (SKGC) shut its small No. 1
naphtha-fed steam cracker in Ulsan permanently on Dec. 10 due to aging-related
issues. The No. 1 steam cracker is able to produce 200,000 mt/year of ethylene
and 140,000 mt/year of propylene. The company will keep normal operations of its
No. 2 steam cracker at the same location.
Ethylene and propylene are
feedstocks for producing PE and PP.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report,
Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 1,760,950 tonnes in the first ten
months of 2020, up by 3% year on year. Only high density polyethylene (HDPE) and
linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) shipments increased. At the same time,
PP shipments to the Russian market reached 978,870 tonnes in
January-October 2020 (calculated using the formula: production minus exports
plus imports minus producers' inventories as of 1 January, 2020). Supply of
exclusively of PP random copolymer increased. |
