Indorama Ventures likely to restart dormant plant at Sulphur in August

26-Jul-19

Indorama Venture's dormant plant at Sulphur is likely begin start-up operations again sometime in August, as per americanpress.com. The facility, previously owned by OxyChem, is on 250 acres located in Sulphur. Indorama, which began its work here in 2015, refurbished and expanded the dormant ethane cracker and had been attempting the start-up of operations that would produce 370,000 metric tons of ethylene and 30,000 metric tons of propylene.

Site Director Barre said most of the issues were the result of a byproduct of the process - an oil-like substance, getting into the "wrong places" and fouling up instrumentation. He said the contamination caused the boilers to trip, which in turn caused a loss of steam. "We've cleaned it out over the last couple of weeks," he said.
Regulators have been visiting the site for the past few weeks and the company has been working with them to resolve environmental and permit issues.