Involving ethylene and propylene! A fire broke out in a factory, limiting the production capacity of one million tons

Recently, the "dual limit" policy has caused many factories to enter the "limited shutdown" mode, and the production capacity has been greatly reduced. At the moment, there is a fire in another large factory, which has caused the production of one million tons of capacity to stop!

According to foreign media reports, on November 1, a fire broke out in the cracking furnace of the petrochemical producer Shell in PulauBukom due to technical problems!

According to sources, the cracker is currently offline and will be maintained for a week. Shell has informed some buyers of ethylene and propylene that the supply will be reduced.

According to statistics, the capacity of this cracker is 1 million tons/year of ethylene and 500,000 tons/year of propylene. In addition, the production of the cracking unit is mainly used in its derivative plants, including a 250,000 tons/year propylene oxide unit or 550,000 tons/year styrene unit, and a 70,000 tons/year restarted in May 2020. Isopropanol plant and 750,000 tons/year ethylene glycol plant.

The 350,000-ton/year vinyl acetate plant of Dalian Chemical in Taiwan and Singapore Prime Evolue's metallocene hexene LLDPE plant on Jurong Island are the main downstream buyers of ethylene; and its propylene production mainly supplies 194,000 of Changchun Chemical. Ton/year cumene plant and Mitsui Phenol’s 151,000 ton/year cumene plant.

It is reported that the comprehensive facility here also has an 18.6 ton/year butadiene extraction unit, but its contractor has not yet received any notice of supply reduction.

In addition, PetroChina Shell’s first cracking unit in Guangdong has recently undergone maintenance. According to sources, this maintenance is temporarily unable to determine the exact date and duration of the closure. The ethylene production capacity of the cracker is 1 million tons/year, and the propylene production capacity is 535,000 tons/year.