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MOSCOW (MRC)
-- Yansab plans February turnarounds for EG, olefins plants in Yanbu, Saudi
Arabia, said Chemweek.
700,000-metric
tons/year EG plant to shut down 1 February for 21 days; olefins plant to shut on
5 February for 10 days. The firm, which is majority-owned by SABIC, intends to
bring its ethylene glycol and olefis production plant down for 21 and 10 days on
the 1 February and 5 February, respectively, the company said in a filing on
Saudi exchange Tadawul.
The company has production capacity of 1.38m
tonnes/year of ethylene and 400,000 tonnes/year of propylene at the site and
770,000 tonnes/year of ethylene glycols.
As MRC reported earlier,
Yansab shut its high density polyethylene (HDPE) and linear low density
polyethylene (LLDPE) units for maintenance in early February, 2018. The planned
outage was to remain in force for around 6-7 weeks. Located in Yanbu, Saudi
Arabia the HDPE and LLDPE units have a production capacity of 400,000 mt/year
each.
According to MRC's DataScope report, PE
imports to Russia decreased in January-November 2020 by 17% year on year and
reached 569,900 tonnes. High density polyethylene (HDPE) accounted for the
greatest reduction in imports. At the same time, PP imports into Russia
increased by 21% year on year to about 202,000 tonnes in the first eleven months
of 2020. Propylene homopolymer (homopolymer PP) accounted for the main increase
in imports.
Yansab is the most recent SABIC, (Saudi Basic Industries
Corp), affiliate in Saudi Arabia, and will be the largest Sabic petrochemical
complex. It will have an annual capacity exceeding 4 million metric tons (MT) of
petrochemical products including: 1.3 million MT (metric-tons) of ethylene;
400,000 MT of propylene; 900,000 MT of polyethylene; 400,000 MT of
polypropylene; 700,000 MT of ethylene glycol; 250,000 MT of benzene, xylene and
toluene, and 100,000 MT of butene-1 and butene-2. |
