Complete restart of YNCC’s cracker expected toward end of week

23-Feb-11

Complete restart of YNCC’s naphtha cracker is expected toward end of week- or Thursday at the earliest. YNCC has started feeding naphtha for the largest of its three naphtha crackers after a brief shutdown due to a technical glitch, as per Reuters. On-spec production is expected in a day. Problems in a power flow line caused the shutdown on Tuesday at the 857,000 tpa cracker. The two other crackers with a nameplate capacity of 1.043 mln tpa have been running normally. The cracker is scheduled for a month-long maintenance starting April 5.