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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Map Ta Phut Olefins Co
Ltd (MOC), a subsidiary of Thailand’s SCG Chemical, has completed the
maintenance work at its cracker in Map
Ta Phut, reported CommoPlast.
Thus, the cracker with the
capacity of 900,000 mt/year of ethylene and 450,000 mt/year
of propylene was shut for a scheduled turnaround on 2 November, 2020, and
fully resumed operations in the fourth week of December,
2020.
Meanwhile, the company’s downstream plants including the
720,000 tons/year polypropylene (PP) unit and 980,000 tons/year high
density polyethylene (HDPE) lines have also resumed
operating.
MOC took these units offline in November 2020 for 45-days
maintenance.
As MRC informed before,
Siam Cement Group’s (SCG) proposed flexible-feed cracker project in Vietnam is
being configured to take as much as 80% propane as feedstock for production. The
USD5.4bn Long Son Petrochemical (LSP) Complex in Vietnam’s Ba Ria-Vung Tao
province “is designed to use up to 20% - 80% propane”, SCG stated in a July 2020
presentation to investors, citing low cost of this feedstock during the summer
and winter seasons.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing
polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report,
Russia's estimated polyethylene (PE) consumption totalled 1,990,280 tonnes in
the first eleven months of 2020, up by 1% year on year. Only high density
polyethylene (HDPE) shipments increased. At the same time, polypropylene (PP)
shipments to the Russian market reached 1 090,900 tonnes in the first eleven
months of 2020 (calculated using the formula: production, minus exports, plus
imports, excluding producers' inventories as of 1 January, 2020). Supply of
exclusively PP random copolymer increased. |
