CNOOC shuts down aroms unit on low feedstock

20 May 2008 12:00  [Source: ICIS news]

SHANGHAI (ICIS news)--China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) shut down its aromatics plant at Huizhou in southern Guangdong province on Tuesday for 10 days due to a feedstock shortage, a company source said.

"We received a notice from CNOOC-Shell that it would stop providing feedstock for our aromatics due to a unit turnaround in that company," the source said.

The source could not provide any further details of the plant shutdown while CNOOC-Shell officials were unavailable for comment.

The joint venture, which is located at the same site, operates an 800,000 tonne/year ethylene cracker and produces 2.3m tonnes/year of petrochemical products from its Huizhou operations.

CNOOC's aromatics plant produces 120,000 tonnes/year of toluene and 100,000 tonnes/year of xylenes.

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By: Judith Wang
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