Shell Moerdijk, Netherlands cracker back up

12 December 2008 13:15  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (ICIS news)--Shell’s cracker based at its site in Moerdijk, the Netherlands, is back online following its restart midweek after an unplanned shutdown, a company source said on Friday.

The cracker shut down because of a technical issue on 7 November and had been expected to be out of action for four to five weeks.

Force majeure was declared on butadiene at the site on 10 November as a result of the cracker shutdown. It was not immediately clear whether this was still in place.

Shell has the capacity to produce 115,000 tonnes/year of butadiene at Moerdijk, according to the ICIS plants and projects database, using crude C4 sourced from the cracker.

Shell also has the capacity to produce 900,000 tonnes/year ethylene and 500,000 tonnes/year propylene at Moerdijk which is the second largest cracker in Europe.

In related news, Shell’s fluid catalytic cracker (FCC) at Pernis, the Netherlands was still down pending a full investigation of the fire that occurred on site last week.

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By: Nel Weddle
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