Today's Chemical Processing Hotline Headlines

North America
Shell Chemical's 2,300 million-pound-per-year OP 3 olefins unit in Deer Park, Texas, remains shut down. The unit was forced offline on May 5 due to a fire. Industrial Info continues to monitor the situation and hopes to get a more definitive outage timeline.

International
DL Chemical is performing a 34-day planned turnaround of the 1,146 million-pound-per-year Linear Low-Density Polyethylene (LLDPE) Unit at its Yeosu Chemicals plant in South Korea. Expectations are to restart the unit on June 10.

Ras Lanuf Oil & Gas Processing Company, on May 15, was forced to shut down the 728 million-pound-per-year ethylene unit at its Ras Lanuf Olefins Complex in Libya due to mechanical issues. Tentative expectations are to restart the unit by May 27.

PetroIneos Manufacturing Scotland Limited is performing a planned maintenance shutdown of the 250 million-pound-per-year Polypropylene PD3 Unit at its Grangemouth Olefins & Polymers Plant in the U.K. The completion is expected in early June.

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