Indonesia’s Chandra Asia appointed FEED contractors for the second petchem plant

07 Dec 2021 Chandra Asri has been planning to build the second petchem complex since 2018 to meet the growing domestic demand, reducing the country’s need to rely on the import market.

02 Dec 2021

China’s Qingdao Haiwan declared force majeure on PVC outputs

In an official statement to its overseas customers, Qingdao Haiwan Chemical declared force majeure at its ethylene-based PVC plant due to an ‘unforeseeable problem’

29 Nov 2021

Fire broke out at Guangzhou Petrochemical’s refinery

The cause of the fire was preliminarily determined as leakage of coking gasoline when the company attempted to restart the unit from maintenance work.

25 Nov 2021

South Korea’s LG Chem restarted Daesan cracker

The unit was taken offline in late September for routine maintenance.

23 Nov 2021

China’s Pucheng Clean Energy cuts run rates after hitting coal consumption quota

The development raises many questions among Chinese players on whether other coal-based petrochemical plants would face the same issue

16 Nov 2021

South Korea’s Hyundai Chemical started marketing cargoes from the new plant

According to market sources, Hyundai Chemical – a joint venture between South Korea’s Lotte Chemical and Hyundai Oilbank has started to market cargoes from the new petrochemical plant in Daesan this week.

15 Nov 2021

Fire at Indonesia’s Pertamina did not affect petchem operations

The company informed that the incident did not affect operations at any other plants at the same complex. In fact, all other production lines were operating normally during the incident.

12 Nov 2021

Singapore's Shell restarted troubled cracker

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

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