CNOOC-Shell JV ramps up rates at cracker, downstream units after restart

Chemical News: CNOOC-Shell JV ramps up rates at cracker, downstream units after restart

https://www.chemnet.com Jul 15,2011 Platts
China's CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Co joint venture, which restarted its integrated steam cracker and petrochemical complex at Nanhai in China's Guangdong province Sunday, has been ramping up rates, a company source said Thursday.

The cracker -- able to make 800,000 mt/year of ethylene and 430,000 mt/year of propylene -- is now running above 90% of its capacity. The 560,000 mt/year styrene monomer plant is also back in full production, the source said.

All of the complex's plants were shut on July 6 due to an unspecified technical problem with the cracker.

CSPC's petrochemical production capacities:

PRODUCT CAPACITY (mt/year) Ethylene 800,000 Propylene 430,000 Butadiene 150,000 Polyethylene 200,000 (LLDPE-HDPE swing plant) Polyethylene 250,000 (LDPE) Polypropylene 240,000 Styrene monomer 560,000 MEG (EO, EG) 320,000 Propylene oxide 250,000 Propylene glycol 60,000 Polyols 135,000

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