UPDATE: Malaysia’s PrefChem aims to restart in May

Pengerang Refining and Petrochemical Complex (PRefChem) aims to restart the troubled plant in Malaysia this May after more than two years of staying offline following an explosion on 16 March 2020. 

The company has been repeatedly attempting to bring the complex online over the past years, however, none has been materialised. 

PrefChem is a 50%-50% joint venture between Petronas and Saudi Aramco. The complex houses a naphtha cracker that produces 1.2 million tons/year of ethylene and 600,000 tons/year of propylene. 

Downstream units include a 450,000 ton/year homo-PP line, a 450,000 tons/year PP copolymer, and a 400,000 tons/year HDPE unit. The company also owns a C6-based metallocene PE plant with a capacity of 350,000 tons/year.