MOSCOW (MRC) -- JX Nippon Oil and Energy has restarted a paraxylene (PX) plant, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Japan informed that the plant restarted on July 1, 2015. It was shut for maintenance turnaround.
Located at Kashima in Japan, the plant has a production capacity of 177,000 mt/year.
As MRC wrote previously, on June 27, 2015, JX Nippon Oil and Energy restarted the No.1 189,000 bpd crude distillation unit (CDU) at its Kashima refinery in Japan, as per Apic-online. It was shut on May 29, 2015 following a fire at the Kashima refinery. The Kashima refinery of JX Nippon has a crude processing capacity of 252,000 bpd.
Besides, on January 6, 2015, Japan's JX Nippon Oil and Energy shut its olefins conversion unit (OCU) in Kawasaki indefinitely. The shutdown has been attributed to compressed margins in the wake of low propylene prices as compared to prices of ethylene.
The Nippon Oil Corporation, or NOC or Shin-Nisseki is a Japanese petroleum company. Its businesses include the exploration, importation, and refining of crude oil; the manufacture and sale of petroleum products, including olefines (ethylene, propylene) and aromatics.
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