Today's Chemical Processing Hotline Headlines

North America
BASF Total Petrochemicals' 2,293 million-pound-per-year ethylene unit in Point Arthur, Texas, remains shut down. Current expectations are to attempt a restart in roughly two weeks.

Dow Chemical is wrapping up a turnaround of its 1,610 million-pound-per-year LHC 7 ethylene unit in Freeport, Texas. Current expectations are to attempt a restart on November 25.

Eastman Chemical Company is wrapping up a turnaround of its 300 million-pound-per-year HCC 3 ethylene unit in Longview, Texas. Current plans are to complete turnaround activities and then idle the unit until the end of 2022 (due to economics).

International
Yara Sluiskil BV has started a planned major maintenance turnaround of the 500,000 ton-per-year Ammonia 3 (Reformer D) unit at its Sluiskil Fertilizers Plant in the Netherlands. The turnaround kicked off in early October and is expected to take approximately two months to complete.

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