MOSCOW (MRC) -- Equate Petrochemical Company, Kuwait’s first international petrochemical joint-venture, has taken off-stream its No.2 monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant for maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Kuwait informed that the plant was shut on April 25, 2015. The plant is likely to restart early next week.
Located in Shuaiba, Kuwait, the plant has a production capacity of 650,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed earlier, in late 2014 - early 2015, Equate successfully entered its final stage of the turnaround’s operations relevant to a number of industrial units for ethylene, polyethylene and ethylene glycol.
Established in 1995, EQUATE Petrochemical Company is an international joint venture between Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC), The Dow Chemical Company (Dow), Boubyan Petrochemical Company (BPC) and Qurain Petrochemical Industries Company (QPIC). Commencing production in 1997, EQUATE is the single operator of a fully integrated world-scale manufacturing facility producing over 5 million tons annually of high-quality petrochemical products which are marketed throughout the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe.
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