US Eastman restarts cracker after outage in Longview, Texas

Tracy Dang

14-Mar-2014

HOUSTON (ICIS)–US-based Eastman Chemical restarted its Longview cracker in Texas on Thursday after an outage that lasted about two weeks, market sources said on Friday.

Eastman shut down the facility on 3 March because of a combination of site-wide steam/condensate energy emergency and instrument problems on a steam drum, the company said in a filing with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).

The issues caused two compressors to shut down the 640,000 tonne/year ethylene unit.

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