Repair work at Lukoil’s 350,000 tpa Stavrolen petrochemical complex in Budennovsk, Russia, following a February fire will shutter production of ethylene and propylene at the site for 6 months, as per OGJ Online. A completed investigation of the Feb. 26 incident determined the fire, which broke out in the plant’s ethylene and propylene production unit No. 2, was caused by depressurization of the aluminum heat exchanger. The depressurization of the heat exchanger resulted from the fracture of a corrugated plate in the left heat-exchange section.
While repair and maintenance work at the site already is under way, Lukoil does not expect ethylene and propylene production at the plant to resume until January 2015. Polypropylene production from imported propylene feedstocks will resume this month, the company added.
05-Jun-14 
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