Explosion at South Korea’s S-Oil plant

20 May 2022 Market sources said that the explosion did not cause any physical damage to the downstream polyolefins plants at the adjacent location but might result in a temporary feedstock supply disruption.

12 May 2022

Malaysia’s PrefChem successfully restarted the refinery, downstream plants followed suit

Media reports added that the refinery is currently processing the existing crude from the storage tank and will then receive supply from Saudi Aramco.

11 May 2022

UPDATE: Vietnam’s Hyosung shut PDH unit after cutting operating rates

Vietnamese market participants expect the shutdown, coupled with the persistent production disruption at Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical would tighten domestic availability to a certain extent

10 May 2022

Vietnam’s Hyosung shut PP plant following upstream issues

Several customers have reported delays in delivery of previously purchased cargoes as a result of the production disruptions.

27 Apr 2022

Thailand's PTT to shut PE plants for maintenance works

At the time of this report, there is no additional information on the operation status at the HDPE plants belong the PTT at the same petrochemical site.

21 Apr 2022

UPDATE: Vietnam’s Nghi Son struggles to restart PP plant after technical issues

Nghi Son has not been able to operate smoothly since the beginning of the year. In February, the company slashed operating rates by 50% as a result of financial issues at the refinery and was only able to operate for several weeks before being shut down again.

19 Apr 2022

China’s Zhongjing Petrochemical to startup new PP plant in June

At the moment, Zhongjing operates two existing PP lines with a nameplate capacity of 1 million tons/year and a 750,000 tons/year propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit based in Fujian, China.

15 Apr 2022

UPDATE: Singapore’s ExxonMobil mulls over shutdown at No. 1 cracker

In the previous week, the producer formally announced the suspension at several downstream units due to unforeseen external market factors that significantly impact the company’s businesses.

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