ExxonMobil begins maintenance at Singapore Chemical Plant

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SINGAPORE (ICIS)–ExxonMobil on 1 May began a scheduled maintenance at its Singapore Chemical Plant (SCP), a company spokesperson said on Monday.

“The overall duration of this maintenance is expected to last a few weeks,” the spokesperson said.

It is “not our practice to specify” which units will be part of the turnaround, the spokesperson added.

The company is working closely with its customers to meet their business times during the maintenance period.

The company’s SCP can produce 1.9m tonnes/year of ethylene, 1.9m tonnes/year of polyethylene (PE), 930,000 tonnes/year of polypropylene (PP) as well as 300,000 tonnes/year of specialty elastomers.

The SCP also houses an oxo-alcohol plant and an aromatics plant which can produce 530,000 tonnes/year of paraxylene (PX), 580,000 tonnes/year of benzene and 380,000 tonnes/year of toluene.

The SCP is integrated with ExxonMobil’s Singapore Refinery which is made up of two operating sites – one on Singapore’s mainland at Jurong while another is sited in Jurong Island.

The company earlier last month said that it has started maintenance at the refinery site on Jurong Island.

This integrated refinery has a combined nameplate capacity of about 592,000 bbl/day.

Read John Richardson and Malini Hariharan’s blog – Asian Chemical Connections