Royal Dutch Shell restarts ethylene cracker in Bukom after 3 month maintenance and expansion

14-Jan-15

Royal Dutch Shell restarted its ethylene cracker in Bukom, Singapore this week following a three-month maintenance and expansion works to raise the unit's capacity, trading sources not related to the oil major have been reported in Reuters. Shell declined to comment on the restart dates of the cracker when contacted through email. Shell said the expansion work would increase the capacity of the 800,000 tpa ethylene cracker by 20%.