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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Yanbu National
Petrochemical Company (Yansab), part of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
(Sabic), is expected to take additional three days of repairs at its
700,000-metric tons/year ethylene glycol unit at Yanbu, reported Chemweek.
This plant has been off-line since 1
February, 2021.
As MRC informed before,
Yansab has restarted its cracker after a planned turnaround. Thus, the cracker
in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, which can produce 1.38 mln mt/year of ethylene and
400,000 mt/year of propylene, resumed operations on 15 February, 2021. It was
shut for a turnaround on 5 February.
The company also has polyolefin
plants at the same site with production capacity of 400,000 tons/year of
polypropylene (PP) and linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) each. They were
also taken off-line for maintenance on 5 February. Both plants resumed
production in mid-February.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks
for producing polyethylene (PE) and PP.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report,
Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 2,220,640 tonnes in 2020, up by 2%
year on year. Only shipments of low density polyethylene (LDPE) and high density
polyethylene (HDPE) increased. At the same time, polypropylene (PP) shipments to
the Russian market reached 1 240,000 tonnes in 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.
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.
Saudi Basic Industries
Corporation (Sabic) ranks among the world's top petrochemical companies. The
company is among the world's market leaders in the production of polyethylene,
polypropylene and other advanced thermoplastics, glycols, methanol and
fertilizers. |
