SAUDI POLYMERS
Al Jubail complex trips over technical issues / Outage expected to last for four weeks
Technical problems have led to what could be a four-week outage of the Al Jubail petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia, operated by Saudi Polymers Company (SPCo, Al Jubail / Saudi Arabia), a 65:35 joint venture of National Petrochemical Company (Petrochem) and Chevron Phillips Chemical (Houston, Texas / USA; www.cpchem.com).
In a report to the Saudi Stock Exchange, Petrochem, a subsidiary of Saudi Industrial Investment Group (SIIG, Riyadh / Saudi Arabia; www.siig.com.sa), said the problems were discovered on 10 November and it was decided to stop most of the units for safety reasons. The complex went on stream on 22 June of this year – see Plasteurope.com of 27.06.2012.
According to Plasteurope.com's capacity database Polyglobe (www.polyglobe.net), the Al Jubail complex has capacity to produce 1.165m t/y of ethylene, 1.1m t/y of PE (HDPE and LLDPE), 400,000 t/y of PP, 445,000 t/y of propylene, 200,000 t/y of PS and 100,000 t/y of 1-hexene.
In a report to the Saudi Stock Exchange, Petrochem, a subsidiary of Saudi Industrial Investment Group (SIIG, Riyadh / Saudi Arabia; www.siig.com.sa), said the problems were discovered on 10 November and it was decided to stop most of the units for safety reasons. The complex went on stream on 22 June of this year – see Plasteurope.com of 27.06.2012.
According to Plasteurope.com's capacity database Polyglobe (www.polyglobe.net), the Al Jubail complex has capacity to produce 1.165m t/y of ethylene, 1.1m t/y of PE (HDPE and LLDPE), 400,000 t/y of PP, 445,000 t/y of propylene, 200,000 t/y of PS and 100,000 t/y of 1-hexene.
14.11.2012 Plasteurope.com [223866-0]
Published on 14.11.2012
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