Today's Chemical Processing Hotline Headlines

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North America
Shell Chemical is on schedule to perform a 30-day turnaround of its 300 million-pound-per-year OP2D Ethylene Unit in Deer Park, Texas, beginning April 1. The restart is expected by April 30.

International
SK Advanced, on December 27, began a 39-day planned turnaround of the 1,323 million-pound-per-year Propane Dehydrogenation (PDH) Unit at its chemicals plant in Ulsan, South Korea. The restart is expected by February 3.

Morvarid Petrochemical Company remains on schedule to perform a 25-day planned maintenance turnaround of the 1,102 million-pound-per-year ethylene unit at its Assaluyeh Petrochemical Complex in Iran, beginning January 27. The restart is expected by February 20.

TCI Sanmar Chemicals S.A.E., today, December 30, expects to restart the 132.30 million-pound-per-year ethylene unit at its Port Said Chemical Complex in Egypt.