MOSCOW (MRC) -- CPC Corp has shut a residual fluid catalytic cracker (RFCC) at its Dalin refinery owing to technical issues, said Apic-online.
A source in Taiwan informed that the cracker was shut last week. The duration of its shutdown could not be ascertained.
Located at Dalin in Taiwan, the RFCC has a propylene capacity of 400,000-450,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed before, CPC Corp's refinery in the Kaohsiung area reported leaks of propylene gas. Wu Yi-fang, head of CPC's Talin refinery, said a loose connector in the six-inch piping system transporting the colorless gas to its Linyuan plant caused the leak.
CPC Corporation, Taiwan is engaged in the exploration, production, refining, procurement, transportation, storage, and marketing of oil and gas. The company provides fuel oil, including automotive unleaded gasoline and diesel fuel, low-sulfur fuel oil, marine distillate fuels, marine residual fuels, and aviation fuel; petrochemicals, such as ethylene, propylene, butadiene, benzene, para-xylene, and ortho-xylene; liquefied petroleum gas products comprising liquefied petroleum gas, propane, butane, and a propane/butane mixture; lubricants, motor oil, industrial oil, grease, and marilube oil; SNC products, including petroleum ether, naphtha, toluene, xylene, crude octene, methyl alcohol, normal paraffin, viscosity-graded asphalt cement, and sulfur; and natural gas.
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