MOSCOW (MRC) -- Hyundai Oilbank, the refinery unit of Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings, has decided to pursue a listing in the South Korean market during 2022, reported Reuters with reference to Hyundai Heavy' statement in a regulatory filing.
Hyundai Oilbank had previously pursued a listing in 2018 but had delayed the plan until this year due to regulatory scrutiny of its balance sheet.
Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings held 74.1% of the refiner as of end-March, while Saudi Aramco owns 17% of the refiner through an overseas unit, according to a Hyundai Oilbank filing.
As MRC informed earlier, Hyundai Oilbank shut its one crude distillation (CDU) unit, a residual desulphurises and a fluid catalytic cracker (FCC) unit at its Daesan refinery for a maintenance turnaround on April 8, 2020. The refinery remained off-stream for around 30-45 days. Located at Daesan in South Korea, the refinery has a crude processing capacity of 395,000 bpd.
Ethylene and propylene are the main feedstocks for the production of polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), respectively.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 744,130 tonnes in the first four month of 2021, up by 4% year on year. Shipments of all PE grades increased. At the same time, PP deliveries to the Russian market were 523,900 tonnes in January-April 2021, up by 55% year on year. Supply of homopolymer PP and PP block copolymers increased, whereas shipments of PP random copolymers decreased.
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