MOSCOW (MRC) -- Petronas Chemicals Group (PCG) has taken off-stream a linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) line at its LLDPE/high density polyethylene (HDPE) swing plant, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Malaysia informed that the LLDPE line with production capacity of 120,000 mt/year was shut earlier this week. It is likely to remain off-stream for around 4-5 days.
Located in Kerteh at Terengganu, Malaysia, the swing plant has a production capacity of 240,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed previously, in early 2017, Petronas said that its new USD27 billion refining and petrochemical complex project in the southeast Asian country is on track for start-up in 2019. Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters a little bit earlier that Saudi Aramco had shelved its plans for a partnership with Petronas on the Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project. RAPID, located within the Pengerang Integrated Complex in the southern Malaysian state of Johor, is designed to have a 300,000-bpd oil refinery and a petrochemical complex with a production capacity of 7.7 MMt.
Petronas, short for Petroliam Nasional Berhad, is a Malaysian oil and gas company wholly owned by the Government of Malaysia. The Group is engaged in a wide spectrum of petroleum activities, including upstream exploration and production of oil and gas to downstream oil refining; marketing and distribution of petroleum products; trading; gas processing and liquefaction; gas transmission pipeline network operations; marketing of liquefied natural gas; petrochemical manufacturing and marketing; shipping; automotive engineering; and property investment.
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