Today's Chemical Processing Hotline Headlines

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North America
Formosa Plastics Corporation USA, on January 16, began a 60-day turnaround of its 2,646 million-pound-per-year Olefins 3 unit in Point Comfort, Texas. The restart is expected in mid-March.

LyondellBasell Industries NV, on December 11, began a major 70-day turnaround of its 2,600 million-pound-per-year QE1 ethylene unit in La Porte, Texas. The restart is expected in late March.

Pemex Petroquimica's 705.5 million-pound-per-year Low-Density Polyethylene (LDPE) 3 Unit at its Cangrejara plant in Veracruz, Mexico remains offline after shutting down for maintenance repairs on August 3, and there is no set restart date.

International
Morivarid 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.

Rustavi Azot JSC has rescheduled a planned annual plant-wide maintenance turnaround at its Rustavi Azot Fertilizers plant in Georgia. The maintenance now will begin in August.

Severodonetsk Azot Association JSC's 550,000-metric-ton-per-year Ammonia 1A and 550,000-metric-ton-per-year Ammonia 1B Units are in reserve mode at its Severodonetsk Azot Fertilizers plant in Ukraine. The units have been in reserve since late June and early December, respectively, due to high natural gas prices. The units are tentatively expected to resume operations by spring 2022.

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