MOSCOW (MRC) -- Indonesian state-owned energy company Pertamina is in plans to shut an aromatics plant for maintenance turnaround, reported Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Indonesia informed that the plant is planned to be shut in end-September 2014. It is likely to remain off-stream for around 40 days.
Located in Cilacap, Indonesia, the plant has a PX capacity of 270,000 mt/year and benzene capacity of 110,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed previously, last June, Pertamina signed an agreement to purchase petrochemical products from Thailand’s PTT Global Chemical. The agreement serves as a pre-marketing strategy for Pertamina and PTT’s joint Indonesian petrochemical business. Under the agreement, PTT will deliver at least 5,000 tonnes of polyethylene and polypropylene products each month to Pertamina for sale in Indonesia.
Pertamina and PTT already have a joint venture agreement to build a petrochemical facility with an annual production capacity of 1 million tonnes. The output from the facility will comprise of ethylene and polypropylene as well as polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride. There are no details on the facility itself.
Pertamina is an Indonesian state-owned oil and natural gas corporation based in Jakarta. It was created in August 1968 by the merger of Pertamin (established 1961) and Permina (established 1957). Pertamina is the world's largest producer and exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
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