Taiwan's Formosa restarts Mailiao Group II base oil plant

05 September 2011 06:53  [Source: ICIS news]

SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Taiwan’s Formosa Petrochemical has restarted its 520,000 tonne/year Group II base oil plant at Mailiao on 5 September, a company source said on Monday.

“We have started to put feedstock into the plant today [Monday],” he said.

The refinery is expected to have product available for the market in about a week, while exports may resume in the second half of September, the source added.

The Taiwanese refiner restarted an 180,000 bbl/day No 2 crude distillation unit (CDU) last week at its 540,000 bbl/day refinery and the No 3 crude distillation unit of 180,000 bbl/day capacity is likely to be restarted in early September, they added.

The refinery was shut at the end of July following a fire at a pipeline in the Mailiao complex.

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By: Yeow Pei Lin

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