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After unplanned shutdown, Singapore based Royal Dutch Shell is planning to restart its ethylene cracker at Pulau Bukom in the next few weeks.

The cracker is currently shut down for unplanned maintenance to repair a compressor.

As a result of the shutdown, Shell on September 29 declared force majeure on its ability to supply base chemicals to customers.

Based on current assessments, we expect to restart the plant in the next few weeks.

The cracker, which produces more than 900 Mtpy of ethylene, is located at the same site as its 500 Mbpd refinery.

Related Keywords: ethylene supply, force majeure, Royal Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell, largest wholly owned plant, has a 500,000 barrels per day refinery and a stream cracker that produces more than 900,000 tons per year ethylene has declared force majeure on its ethylene cracker at its Bukom manufacturing site in Singapore following an outage the day before.

They had to initiate a shutdown of the ethylene cracker complex at the Pulau Bukom manufacturing site for unplanned maintenance work to repair a compressor, and recovery efforts are underway.

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Global monoethylene glycol (MEG) market is anticipated to touch $ 40.85 billion in 2023 from reported turnover of $ 27.21 billion in 2014, which stood at 24,782.6 kilo tones, expanding at a CAGR of 6.1 percent between 2015 and 2023, according to a Transparency Market Research report. Monoethylene glycol is produced from ethylene, a downstream product of crude oil and natural gas.