Petrologistics restarts Texas C3 unit after nitrogen outage

19 May 2011 20:49  [Source: ICIS news]

HOUSTON (ICIS)--Petrologistics said on Thursday it has restarted its propylene (C3) plant in Texas, after a brief outage caused by a lack of nitrogen supply.

The facility was taken off line on Wednesday, the company said in a public filing, citing a ruptured pipeline header at its nitrogen supplier.

Petrologistics has 544,000 tonnes/year of capacity at a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant in Houston.

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By: William Lemos
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