Table: Asian naphtha crackers' 2019 maintenance
23/01/2019 04:12
(Updates with 2019 information)
The following shows the planned maintenance at some of Asia's naphtha crackers in 2019, 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 2019
NA = no available information
Country Company Location Capacity 2019 Previous Remarks
(in '000 Maintenance Turnaround
tonnes)
India Brahmaputra Assam 220 NA NA
Haldia Haldia 670 NA 2018
Indian Oil Panipat 857 NA NA IOC is expected
to raise
capacity in 2019
Reliance Hazira 950 None NA Reliance also
operates
crackers that
run on gas
Reliance Vadodara 190 None NA
OPaL Dahej 1100 NA NA Cracker runs on
naphtha, gas
Indonesia Chandra Asri Anyer 860 August (about 2014 Capacity to be
40-45 days) raised to
900,000 tpy by
2020
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 September None commissioned in
June 2014
Japan Asahi Kasei M'bishi Mizushima 567 May 22 to June 25 2017
Idemitsu Chiba 414 April 9 to May 28 2017
Idemitsu Tokuyama 687 None 2018
JXTG Kawasaki 443 None 2016
Keiyo Chiba 768 None 2018
Maruzen Chiba 525 None 2016
M'bishi Kashima 539 None 2018
Mitsui Chem Ichihara 612 July 3 to Aug 2 2017
Mitsui Chem Osaka 500 None 2018
Showa Denko Oita 691 None 2018
JXTG (previously Tonen) Kawasaki 540 None 2018
Tosoh Yokkaichi 527 None 2018
Singapore ExxonMobil Jurong Island 900 NA NA ExxonMobil had
shut some
petchem units in
2018 but did not
specify which
ones
ExxonMobil Jurong Island 1000 NA NA
PCS Jurong Island 465 None 2018
PCS Jurong Island 635 None 2016
Shell Bukom over 960 NA 2014
South Korea Hanwha Total Daesan 1000 End March to May 2015 Capacity to be
(45 days) raised by
310,000 tpy in
2019. Further
expansion
expected in
2020.
KPIC Onsan 800 April (30 days) 2017
LG Chem Daesan 1040 March or April 2015 Capacity to be
(4-5 weeks) raised to 1.27
mil tpy by end
of H1 2019 or H2
2019
LG Chem Yeosu 1160 None 2018
Lotte Chem Daesan 1100 H2 2019 2015
Lotte Chem Yeosu 1000 None 2018
SK Energy Ulsan 200 NA 2017
SK Energy Ulsan 660 NA 2016
YNCC Yeosu 900 May (30 day) 2015
YNCC Yeosu 580 None 2018
YNCC Yeosu 465 None 201
Taiwan CPC Lin Yuan 380 Mid Nov-Mid Jan 2017
2020
CPC Lin Yuan 720 None 2017
Formosa Mailiao 700 None 2018
Formosa Mailiao 1030 Aug 15 to Sept 30 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 None NA PTT also
operates gas
(ethane)
crackers
ROC Map Ta Phut 800 None 2016
(Reporting by 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))