Table: Asian naphtha crackers 2020 maintenance
08/01/2020 03:53
The following shows the planned maintenance at some of Asia's naphtha crackers in 2020 as well as run cuts, based on information from trade
and industry sources unless otherwise indicated.
The table will be revised when new information becomes available.
NONE = no maintenance in 2020
NA = no available information
Country Company Location Capacity 2020 Previous Remarks
(in '000 Maintenance Turnarounds
tonnes)
India Brahmaputra Assam 220 NA NA
Haldia Haldia 670 NA 2018
Indian Oil Panipat 857 NA 2019 IOC is expected to raise
capacity to 1.1 mil tpy
in 2021/2022
Reliance Hazira 950 NA NA Reliance also operates
crackers that run on gas
Reliance Vadodara 190 NA NA
OPaL Dahej 1100 NA NA Cracker runs on naphtha,
gas
Indonesia Chandra Asri Anyer 900 None 2019, 2014 Capacity was raised to
900,000 tpy during 2019
maintenance; cracker has
cut runs in Dec 2019 to
85-90% on poor petchem
margins
Malaysia PrefChem Pengerang 1200 NA cracker was commissioned
in 2019.
Titan Pasir Gudang 430 None 2017 Titan has in Jan 2020
lowered overall cracking
capacity by about 10% on
weak petchem margins
Titan Pasir Gudang 650 March to April 2017
Titan Pasir Gudang 220 March to April
Philippines JG Summit Batangas City 320 None 2019-2020 Cracker was in
maintenance/expansion
mode in Q4 2019 and
initially expected to
restart Dec 2019 but due
to bad petchem margins,
unit will stay shut
until 3rd week of Jan
2020. Capacity will ramp
up to 480,000 tpy in mid
2020.
Japan Asahi Kasei M'bishi Mizushima 567 None 2019, 2017
Idemitsu Chiba 414 None 2019, 2017
Idemitsu Tokuyama 687 Sept-Oct 2018
JXTG Kawasaki 448 End Feb-end Apr 2016 JXTG has reduced overall
average run cuts at its
two crackers by about
10% due to bad margins
JXTG (previously Tonen) Kawasaki 540 None 2018
Keiyo Chiba 768 None 2018
Maruzen Chiba 525 May to early July 2016 Cracker has reduced runs
by about 5% in Jan 2020
because of weak margins
M'bishi Kashima 539 May to early July 2018
Mitsui Chem Ichihara 612 None 2019, 2017 Cracker had an outage in
May 2019
Mitsui Chem Osaka 500 July 2018
Showa Denko Oita 691 None 2018 Next planned maintenance
is in 2022 but cracker
has reduced runs in Jan
2020 but no specifics on
throughput
Tosoh Yokkaichi 527 March-April 2018
Singapore ExxonMobil Jurong Island 900 NA NA ExxonMobil had shut some
petchem units in 2018 &
2019 but details not
known
ExxonMobil Jurong Island 1000 NA NA
PCS Jurong Island 465 None 2018 PCS have lowered overall
cracking capacity by 10%
in Jan 2020
PCS Jurong Island 635 None 2016
Shell Bukom over 960 NA 2014
South Korea Hanwha Total Daesan 1400 None 2019, 2015 Hanwha's cracker
underwent expansion in
2019 and is scheduled
for further expansion in
end 2020
KPIC Onsan 800 None 2019, 2017 KPIC's cracker has
reduced runs by about
10% in Jan 2020
LG Chem Daesan 1300 Jan 13 to Jan 20 for 2019, 2015 LG Chem's cracker is to
partial maintenance undergo partial
maintenance for 7 days
in Jan 2020 and this
would lower overall run
rates of the two
crackers to 95%.
Cracker was shut in 2019
during June 8-18 because
of an outage.
LG Chem Yeosu 1160 None 2018
Lotte Chem Daesan 1100 None 2019, 2015
Lotte Chem Yeosu 1000 None 2018
SK Energy Ulsan 200 None 2017
SK Energy Ulsan 660 Oct-Nov 2016
YNCC Yeosu 900 None 2019, 2015
YNCC Yeosu 580 Early Oct-early Dec 2018 Capacity to be raised to
915,000 tpy during the
2020
maintenance/expansion
plan
YNCC Yeosu 465 None NA
Taiwan CPC Lin Yuan 380 None 2019-2020, 2017 Maintenance stretches to
Jan 2020 from mid Nov
2019
CPC Lin Yuan 720 Feb to April 2017
Formosa Mailiao 700 None 2018
Formosa Mailiao 1030 None 2019, 2016
Formosa Mailiao 1200 Aug to Sept 2017
Thailand IRPC Map Ta Phut 360 None 2017
MOC Map Ta Phut 900 May-June 2013
PTT Map Ta Phut 515 Q1 NA PTT also operates gas
(ethane) crackers
ROC Map Ta Phut 800 None 2016 next maintenance in 2021
(Reporting by Seng Li Peng in Singapore and Jane Chung in Seoul)
((lipeng.seng@thomsonreuters.com; +65 6870 3086; Reuters Messaging: lipeng.seng.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))