S-Oil Corporation has brought the residual fluidization catalytic cracking plant (RFCC) online, said Commonplast.
S-Oil Corporation has brought the residual fluidization catalytic cracking plant (RFCC) online on 24 May 2022, four days after an explosion rocked the company’s refinery unit in Ulsan, forcing the maker to take all downstream plants offline as a safety measure.
The RFCC plant has an annual output of 200,000 tons of propylene. CommoPlast is unable to rectify the operating status at other downstream plants at the time of this report.
In the meantime, S-Oil decided to carry out unscheduled maintenance work at the 1.79 million tons/year PX plant following the incident. The restart date is set for 15 July 2022. Stay tuned for more updates on the restart schedule at other units.
As per MRC, S-Oil Corp, has suspended production of several processing units after a blast at its Onsan refinery, it said on Friday, a step that could tighten gasoline supplies and boost refiners' margins in Asia. Aramco Overseas Co., a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, is S-Oil’s major shareholder. According to the local media, firefighters were notified of an explosion at the S-Oil refinery at 8:52 p.m. The facility is situated some 400 km southeast of Seoul.
As MRC reported earlier, S-Oil, South Korean petrochemical major, took off-stream its residue fluid catalytic cracker (RFCC) unit for a turnaround in June, 2020. The company undertook a planned shutdown at the unit by early-July, 2020. The unit remained off-line for about two weeks. Located at Onsan, South Korea, the RFCC unit has a propylene capacity of 705,000 mt/year.
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