Indonesia’s Pertamina to shut aromatics unit in October

02 September 2009 09:07  [Source: ICIS news]

SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--Indonesia’s state-owned energy major Pertamina plans to shut its aromatics unit at Cilacap, Java, for a scheduled 15-day turnaround in October, a company source said on Wednesday.

The maintenance would begin from 1 October, the source said.

The Cilacap aromatics unit has been operating at 80% capacity since mid-August, when it experienced technical problems resulting from the input of feedstock naphtha into the distillation unit.

The facility produces 125,000 tonnes/year of benzene and 275,000 tonnes/year of paraxylene (PX).

Other aromatics producers in southeast Asia include Petrochemical Corp of Singapore (PCS) in Singapore and Trans-Pacific Petrochemical Indotama (TPPI) in Indonesia.

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By: Ong Sheau Ling
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