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MOSCOW (MRC) -- American petrochemical
major - Flint Hills Resources - has been resuming operations at
its propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit in Houston, USA, reported S&P Global.
Thus, the company
began restarting its 658,000 mt/year PDH plant on 25 February, 2021.
It
was shut down
on 16 February because of severe winter weather in the
region.
As MRC informed
previously, in November 2019, Motiva Enterprises, the US refining arm of
Saudi Aramco, acquired 100% of Flint Hills Resources chemical plant, adjacent to
its Port Arthur, Texas, oil refinery. The Flint Hills plant operates a 1.57
billion-pound-per-year ethylene cracker, a unit producing nylon component
cyclohexane, and a network of pipelines and storage caverns.
Ethylene and
propylene are feedstocks for producing polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene
(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. |
