CEPSA restores Huelva benzene, cyclo production

19 March 2008 15:38  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (ICIS news)--CEPSA has restored its Huelva benzene and cyclohexane units in Spain to normal production rates after a three-week outage, a company source said on Wednesday.

“The plant went back up over the weekend and is operating normally,” the source said, adding that the planned turnaround had gone without complications.

The outage had begun on 28 February in line with maintenance work to replace a catalyst at the Huelva facility’s reformer.

CEPSA produces 400,000 tonnes/year of benzene and 180,000 tonnes/year of cyclohexane at the Huelva facility, according to ICIS plants and projects.

Market participants had not seen any added tightness as a result of the outage, and spot benzene was reported as trading at $1,145/tonne (€732/tonne) CIF (cost, insurance and freight) ARA (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp) on Wednesday afternoon, $35/tonne lower than the highest trade heard on 28 February.

($1 = €0.64)

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