MOSCOW (MRC) -- Taiwan's state-owned CPC Corp is in plans to shut its No.3 aromatics plant for a maintenance turnaround, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Taiwan informed that the plant is likely to be shut in H1 Novermber 2015. The exact duration of shutdown could not be ascertained.
Located in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, the plant has a benzene capacity of 140,000 mt/year, Isomer MX capacity of 135,000 mt/year and toluene production capacity of 132,000 mt/year.
As MRC reported earlier, CPC Corp. is in negotiations with an unidentified Indonesian firm regarding the purchase and relocation of CPC's Kaohsiung, Taiwan, naphtha cracker to Indonesia. In addition to purchasing the cracker, the Indonesian company is also interested in acquiring the technology as well as operation and maintenance expertise, and has proposed a partnership with CPC in Indonesia.
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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