Table: Asian naphtha crackers' 2017 maintenance
16/01/2017 09:12
The following lists planned maintenance at some of the naphtha crackers in Asia
for 2017, based on information from trade and industry sources.
The table will be revised when new information becomes available.
NONE = no maintenance in 2017
NA = no available information
Company Location Capacity 2017 Previous
('000 tonnes) Maintenance Maintenance
INDONESIA
Chandra Asri Anyer 860 None NA
JAPAN
Asahi Kasei Mizushima 504 ceased in March 2016 2014
Asahi Kasei Mitsubishi Mizushima 567 early May to July NA
Idemitsu Chiba 414 two maintenance 2015
(Idemitsu's 1st maintenance will be either in April, May or June. It's 2nd
shutdown will be in either Sept. Oct. or Nov.)
Idemitsu Tokuyama 687 None 2016
Keiyo Ethylene Chiba 768 None 2014
Maruzen Petchem Chiba 525 None 2016
Mitsubishi Chem Kashima 392 ceased on May 3 2014 NA
Mitsubishi Chem Kashima 540 None 2016
Mitsubishi Chem Mizushima 570 early May-July 2015
Mitsui Chem Ichihara 612 July (about 40 days) 2015
Mitsui Chem Osaka 500 None 2016
JX Nippon Oil Kawasaki 444 None 2016
Showa Denko Oita 695 None 2014
Sumitomo Chiba 415 ceased in May 2015 2011
Tonen Chem Kawasaki 540 None 2014
Tosoh Yokkaichi 527 None 2016
(Tosoh will have maintenance in 2017 but this will not affect cracker's runs)
MALAYSIA
Titan Pasir Gudang 430 Q3 (30 days) 2011
Titan Pasir Gudang 650 Early Feb (45 days) 2010
THE PHILIPPINES
JG Summit Batangas City 320 None commissioned in June 2014
SOUTH KOREA
Lotte Chem Yeosu 1000 None 2016
(Lotte Chem to raise Yeosu's cracker capacity to 1.2 million tpy by 2018)
Lotte Chem Daesan 1100 None 2015
KPIC Onsan 470 mid-April to end May 2013
(KPIC is shutting the cracker for expansion to raise capacity to 800KT)
LG Chem Daesan 1040 None 2015
(LG Chem to raise Daesan's cracker capacity to 1.27 million tpy by 2019)
LG Chem Yeosu 1160 None 2014
SK Energy Ulsan 200 mid March (1 month) 2013
SK Energy Ulsan 660 None 2016
Hanwha Total Daesan 1000 None 2015
YNCC Yeosu 860 None 2015
YNCC Yeosu 580 None 2016
YNCC Yeosu 465 None 2014
SINGAPORE
ExxonMobil Jurong Island 900 NA NA
ExxonMobil Jurong Island 1000 NA NA
(ExxonMobil may have a maintenance at one of its crackers in Q2 2017)
PCS Jurong Island 465 None 2013
PCS Jurong Island 635 None 2016
Shell Bukom Island over 960KT NA 2014
(Shell's cracker was shut on outage in Dec 2015 and restarted in Aug 2016. It
suffered another outage in Sept 2016 and restarted in Nov 2016)
THAILAND
ROC Map Ta Phut 800 None 2016
IRPC Map Ta Phut 360 Jan-March NA
TAIWAN
CPC Lin Yuan 380 Q4 2017 (60 days) NA
CPC Kaohsiung 500 ceased in 2015 2014
CPC Lin Yuan 720 mid Feb to mid April NA
(CPC's newer 720,000 tpy cracker was commissioned in 2013)
Formosa Mailiao 700 None 2015
Formosa Mailiao 1030 None 2016
Formosa Mailiao 1200 mid-Aug to early Oct 2014
(Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori in TOKYO; Jane Chung in SEOUL and Seng Li Peng in
SINGAPORE)
((lipeng.seng@thomsonreuters.com; +65 6870 3086; Reuters Messaging:
lipeng.seng.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))
Keywords: NAPHTHA/CRACKERS MAINTENANCE