Several petrochemical crackers in Europe were undergoing maintenance in March and April, which somewhat limited prompt demand for feedstocks naphtha and LPG. As per Platts, among plants still undergoing unplanned maintenance this week are OMV's Schwechat cracker in Austria, Versalis's Dunkirk cracker in France, Shell's Moerdijk cracker in the Netherlands, and Total's Feluy cracker in France cracker. The plants still undergoing planned maintenance are Total's Antwerp cracker in Belgium, Total's Feyzin cracker in France, and Dow's Terneuzen cracker in the Netherlands.
Dow begun scheduled maintenance at one of its Terneuzen crackers in the Netherlands in early March. The maintenance, expected to last until late April, is taking place at the site's largest cracker, Terneuzen 3, which has an ethylene capacity of 680,000 tpa. Turkish major Petkim was heard to be restarting its Aliaga cracker this week after a power trip halted production last week, while Repsol's Puertollano cracker in Spain restarted last week.
21-Apr-15 
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