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
