МОSCOW (MRC) -- Thailand's largest petrochemical maker, PTT Global Chemical Pcl (PTTGC), has shut down its aromatic plant 2 to repair a reactor in the platforming unit for 15 days from Sept. 15, as per Plastemart.
The aromatic complex 2 produces paraxylene, benzene and toluene with a total capacity of 1.07 mln tpa. To minimise the impact, the company has raised the run rate of its aromatic plant 1.
As MRC wrote previously, PTT Global Chemical has recently awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to SK Engineering and Construction and PTT Maintenance and Engineering for a debottlenecking project that will increase aromatics capacity by 16% to about 1.2-million t/y at its Aromatics II complex in Rayong, Thailand.
The approximately USD128.8-million project will increase paraxylene capacity to 770,000 t/y from 655,000 t/y, benzene capacity to 390,000 t/y from 355,000 t/y and will add 20,000 t/y of orthoxylene capacity. Completion of the expansion is scheduled for the end of 2015.
PTT Global Chemical is a leading player in the petrochemical industry and owns several petrochemical facilities with a combined capacity of 8.45 million tonnes a year. PTTGC is 49% owned by state-controlled parent PTT Pcl, and uses ethane and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from the gas plant as feedstock for its I4-2 olefins plant.
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