BP Amoco begins recommissioning Grangemouth PE plants
07 July 2000 18:00 [Source: ICIS news]
LONDON (CNI)--BP Amoco was on Friday recommissioning its high density and linear low density polyethylene (hdPE/lldPE) plants at Grangemouth, Scotland but it is likely to be at least another five or six days before either of the two crackers is back up.
The PE plants, which are temporarily taking ethylene feedstock by pipeline from BP's Wilton, Teesside chemicals complex, have been down since 8 June. They were shut after a steam pipe fracture which also brought down the 300 000-320 000 tonne/year G4 cracker. Grangemouth's other cracker, the 450 000 tonne/year KG unit, was already shut for a major maintenance overhaul.
A spokesman at Grangemouth for the Anglo-American energy and chemicals group told CNI that three Rigidex loops on the 300 000 tonne/year hdPE plant were now in operation and the 153 000 tonne lldPE unit was being started today. The approximately 75 000 tonne/year butadiene unit was also being prepared for operation.
The first cracker to be recommissioned - now expected to be KG - is scheduled to come online between 13 and 15 of July. The G4 cracker would then follow about four or five days later.
All major plants at the Grangemouth complex have been subjected to a detailed safety audit by BP Amoco technicians. The company has pledged that no plant would be recommissioned without completing successfully a safety review and this has added to the delay in restarting key parts of the chemicals complex.
It is understood that force majeure remains in effect on supplies of hdPE and butadiene from Grangemouth.
By: Neil Sinclair
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