Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat, one of Russia’s largest production complexes for oil refining and petrochemicals, has shut down its polyethylene (PE) production for a scheduled turnaround, ICIS reported.
On Sunday 1 July, the producer took its low-density polyethylene (LDPE) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) production capacities off-stream in order to conduct scheduled maintenance work.
The plant’s representative and customers said the shutdown of HDPE production would be short with operations planned to resume in seven days. LDPE production was shut for a longer period, with output planned to resume after 30 days.
Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat said its LDPE and HDPE production capacities are 45,000 and 120,000 tons per year, respectively.
The company, formerly known as Salavatnefteorgsintez, is one of the leading petrochemical companies in Russia, carrying out a full cycle of processing hydrocarbon raw materials. The list of products manufactured by the enterprise includes more than 140 items, including 76 types of main products: automobile gasolines, diesel fuels, kerosene, furnace black oil, toluene, solvent, liquefied gases, benzene, styrene, ethylbenzene, butyl alcohols, phthalic anhydride and plasticizers, polyethylene, polystyrenes, silica gels and zeolite catalysts, corrosion inhibitors, elemental sulfur, etc.
