Petronas’s MTBE plant runs at full rate on sufficient feedstock
22 July 2010 10:33 [Source: ICIS news]
SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--Malaysian state-owned oil major Petronas is currently operating its 300,000 tonne/year methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) plant in Kuantan at full rate due to sufficient feedstock, a company source said on Thursday.
This was in spite of a force majeure at its 2.36m tonne/year methanol production facility in
“There is enough feedstock,” said a source, adding a third of methanol is fed into the MTBE plant while C4 makes up the remainder.
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