Marun runs MEG “normally” after early Jan outage
17 January 2008 13:19 [Source: ICIS news]
SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--Iran’s Marun Petrochemical is running its 400,000 tonne/year monoethylene glycol (MEG) plant “normally” after an ethylene-related outage earlier this year, a source close to the company said on Thursday.
The plant shut over the new year holidays after a snowstorm affected operations at its 1.1m tonne/year cracker at Bandar Imam.
Another cracker at the same site operated by Amir Kabir Petrochemical was also down for the same reason.
“The feedstock ethylene problem caused the MEG plant to shut, but it restarted some few days ago and now it’s running normally, fine now,” said the source, who added the contract shipments would not be affected by the outage given Marun's ample inventories.
Marun, which also runs a 300,000 tonne/year polyethylene unit at Bandar Imam, is a subsidiary of the state-owned National Petrochemical Co (NPC).
Middle East MEG supply is improving. Saudi Basic Industries Corp said production will begin to normalise in February after the start-up of a new oxygen unit.
By: Salmon Aidan Lee
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