Kuwait's PIC in November turnaround

24 October 2007 11:14  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (ICIS news)--Kuwait’s urea fertilizer producer Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) will shut its Bahrain plant for planned maintenance in November, a company source said on Wednesday.

 

The unit which has a urea capacity of around 550,000 tonnes/year will be brought down from the second week of November for 16-17 days.

 

PIC said that, as the shutdown was planned and would last for just over two weeks, customers would not be impacted.

 

The Bahrain ammonia unit, which has a capacity of around 400,000 tonnes, will also be down for the same period.

 

Ammonia is a feedstock for urea.

 

PIC has three urea plants with a total capacity of around 1.04m tonnes/year.

 

Other Middle East urea producers include Ruwais Fertilizer Industries (Fertil) and Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC).

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