Formosa Petchem to raise refinery runs as maintenance ends
Taiwan’s Formosa Petrochemical Corp will raise the throughput at its crude oil refinery during the second-half of April after finishing maintenance at a crude unit, a company spokesman said.
Formosa’s Mailiao refinery, which can process 540,000 barrels per day (
The plant has been operating at lower capacity because of planned maintenance on a 180,000
Formosa, one of Asia’s top ten largest refinery by capacity, also operates three naphtha crackers with a total capacity of about 2.93 million tonnes per year.
All the crackers are currently operating at full capacity, said Lin.
However, Formosa may need to reduce cracker runs after a fire at its sister company Formosa Chemicals & Fibre Corp (FCFC) on Sunday caused by a gas leak, Lin said, though it is still too early to determine what is the next step.
Formosa Petrochemical supplies pyrolysis gasoline or
FCFC’s No. 3 aromatics line was affected by the gas leak and fire and prolonged shutdown would mean a lack of a processing outlet for the
FCFC also off takes naphtha from the Mailiao refinery.
Reporting by Seng Li Peng; additional reporting by
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