Table: Asian naphtha crackers' 2018 maintenance
06/02/2018 05:08
The following shows the planned maintenance at some of Asia's naphtha crackers in 2018, 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 2018
NA = no available information
Country Company Location Capacity 2018 Previous Remarks
(in '000 Maintenance Turnaround
tonnes) Period
India Brahmaputra Assam 220 NA NA
Haldia Haldia 670 Mid March (45 NA Source: IHS
days)
Indian Oil Panipat 1000 NA NA
Reliance Hazira 950 NA NA Reliance
also
crackers
that run gas
Reliance Vadodara 190 NA NA
OPaL Dahej 1100 NA NA Cracker runs
on naphtha,
gas
Indonesia Chandra Asri Anyer 860 None 2014
Malaysia Titan Pasir Gudang 430 None 2017 new 2017
catalytic
cracker
makes 92,000
T ethylene
Titan Pasir Gudang 650 None 2017
Philippines JG Summit Batangas City 320 None None commissioned
June 2014
Japan Asahi Kasei M'bishi Mizushima 567 None 2017
Idemitsu Chiba 414 None 2017
Idemitsu Tokuyama 687 Sept-Oct 2016
JXTG Kawasaki 443 None 2016
Keiyo Chiba 768 mid-May to 2014
June/early July
Maruzen Chiba 525 None 2016
M'bishi Kashima 539 May 9 to July 3 2016
Mitsui Chem Ichihara 612 None 2017
Mitsui Chem Osaka 500 mid-June to 2016
late July
Showa Denko Oita 691 March to April 2014
(2 mths)
Tonen Kawasaki 540 Aug to end Sept 2014
(45 days)
Tosoh Yokkaichi 527 early March to 2016
late April (2
mths)
Singapore ExxonMobil Jurong Island 900 NA NA
ExxonMobil Jurong Island 1000 NA NA
PCS Jurong Island 465 July 2013
PCS Jurong Island 635 None 2016
Shell Bukom over 960 NA 2014 Cracker had
several
outages in
2015, 2016
South Korea Hanwha Total Daesan 1000 None 2015
KPIC Onsan 800 None 2017 brief outage
late Jan
LG Chem Daesan 1040 None 2015 Capacity to
be raised to
1.27 mil tpy
by 2019
LG Chem Yeosu 1160 Q4 2014
Lotte Chem Daesan 1100 None 2015
Lotte Chem Yeosu 1000 Sept to Oct 2016 capacity to
be raised
this year
SK Energy Ulsan 200 None 2017
SK Energy Uslan 660 None 2016 brief outage
late Jan
YNCC Yeosu 860 None 2015
YNCC Yeosu 580 late Feb (10 2016
days)
YNCC Yeosu 465 October 2014
Taiwan CPC Lin Yuan 380 None 2017 restarted
end Jan
after
maintenance
started Nov
2017
CPC Lin Yuan 720 None 2017
Formosa Mailiao 700 June (40-45 2015
days)
Formosa Mailiao 1030 None 2016
Formosa Mailiao 1200 None 2017
Thailand IRPC Map Ta Phut 360 None 2017
MOC Map Ta Phut 900 None 2013
PTT Map Ta Phut 515 NA NA PTT also
operates gas
(ethane)
crackers
ROC Map Ta Phut 800 None 2016
(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