Cracker to be restarted by Shell on schedule

Shell is on track to restart its naphtha cracker following an unexpected shutdown.

A Polymerupdate source in the Netherlands informed that though a specific restart schedule has not been fixed, it could restart in H1 July, 2015. The company’s petrochemical complex had been shut on October 2, 2014 owing to technical issues.

Located at Moerdijk in the Netherlands, the cracker has an ethylene capacity of 900,000 mt/year.