Chevron Phillips reports flaring from Texas cracker

19 August 2011 14:59  [Source: ICIS news]

HOUSTON (ICIS)--US-based producer Chevron Phillips Chemical reported flaring from its Sweeny ethylene complex in Texas, citing the shutdown of a feedstock pipeline, according to a public filing on Friday.

Chevron Phillips has three crackers in Sweeny with a combined ethylene capacity of 1.9m tonnes/year. The pipeline carried ethane and propane.

The cracker affected was unit 24, Chevron Phillips said in a public filing. The unit has 676,000 tonnes/year of capacity.

No further details were available.

A company spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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By: William Lemos
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