BPRP restarts Gelsenkirchen No. 3 cracker

:: 31 Aug  2018 ::

BP Refining and Petrochemical (BPRP) has brought on-stream its No.3 cracker at Gelsenkirchen.

A Polymerupdate source in Europe informed that the company has resumed operations at the cracker earlier this week. The cracker remained off-line for repair work for around 10-12 days. 

Located Gelsenkirchen, Germany, the No. 3 cracker has ethylene capacity of 550,000 mt/year and propylene capacity of 335,000 mt/year.

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