MOSCOW (MRC) -- Chevron Phillips is likely to shut operations at its styrene monomer (SM) plant, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source based in Saudi Arabia informed that plant will be taken off-stream for a maintenance turnaround in October 2015 and will remain shut for around 35-40 days.
Located at Al-Jubail in Saudi Arabia, the SM plant has a production capacity of 775,000 mt/year.
As MRC wrote previously, in 2014, Chevron Phillips Chemical announced the construction of a world-scale ethylene cracker in Baytown, Texas, two world-scale polyethylene reactors in Old Ocean, Texas and the start-up of the world’s largest 1-hexene facility in Baytown. The 1-hexene plant, capable of producing up to 250,000 tpy, is co-located with this expansion project at the Cedar Bayou plant. Chevron says the two plants will enjoy synergies as they both share the same infrastructure and workforce talent.
Chevron Phillips Chemica, headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas (north of Houston), US,l is one of the world’s top producers of olefins and polyolefins and a leading supplier of aromatics, alpha olefins, styrenics, specialty chemicals, piping, and proprietary plastics. Chevron and Phillips 66 each own 50% of Chevron Phillips Chemical.
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