Singapore's Shell restarted troubled cracker

Royal Dutch Shell has reportedly brought its troubled cracker in Pulau Bukom, Singapore online sometime within this week after a flare occurred on 1 November 2021 forced the company to take the unit off-stream. 

The company was earlier rumored to have reduced the ethylene and propylene allocations to its downstream buyers at the adjacent locations following the incident, however, with the prompt restart, the impact might be smaller than initially expected.

The cracker has an annual output of 960,000 tons/year of ethylene and 550,000 tons/year of propylene.