IIR Top Chemical Processing News Today

North America
LyondellBasell on June 26, unexpectedly shut down its 2.6 billion-pound-per-year QE1 ethylene cracker in La Porte, Texas, for piping repairs. Current expectations are to attempt a restart this weekend.

Westlake Petrochemicals' 1.6 billion-pound-per-year Petro 1 ethylene unit in Sulphur, Louisiana, remains shut down following a fire on June 25.

Koch Fertilizer on June 30, completed a 30-day planned maintenance turnaround of the 529,796-metric-ton-per-year Ammonia Unit 1 and Unit 2 in Enid, Oklahoma.

International
Polski Koncern Naftowy Orlen SA on June 6 completed a 60-day maintenance turnaround of its 1.87 billion-pound-per-year ethylene unit in Plock, Poland.

Exxon Chemical Olefins Incorporated in late June completed a planned maintenance turnaround of its 1.8 billion-pound-per-year Fife Exxon Chemicals plant in the U.K.

Achema AB remains on schedule to begin a planned month-long maintenance turnaround of its 600,000-metric-ton-per-year Ammonia 1 unit, on July 3, at its Jonava Fertilizer Plant in Lithuania.

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