Jurong Aromatics restarts Singapore petrochemical plant after 18 month shutdown

16-Jul-16

Jurong Aromatics Corp (JAC) has restarted its refining-petrochemical complex in Singapore after a 1½ year shutdown, as per sources in Reuters. The plant processed condensate on Wednesday and operated smoothly, and is likely to reach commercial production in a few weeks' time. Jurong Aromatics' complex includes a 100,000 bpd condensate splitter, one of three units that started operations in Asia in 2014 aimed at producing paraxylene, a raw material for textiles and bottles, to meet China's demand.

Jurong Aromatics shut the US$2.4 bln plant in December 2014 on a technical issue and went into receivership in September last year.