ExxonMobil, the largest private US petrochemical company, has put the delivery of products with low-density polyethylene plant (HDPE) to Baton Rouge (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA), under the informal control due to technical problems at the cracker at the same site, reported ICIS market sources.

Market sources said that the business capacity of 900 ths. tons of HDPE per year does not receive ethylene due to problems at the cracker, which occurred last week.

“The company can not produce HDPE blow molding due to lack of ethylene”, – said one of the sources.

A company representative did not comment on the situation with the problems at the plant and the IPA cracker, saying only that ExxonMobil continues to fulfill all contractual obligations.

Sources also added that the company did not load w / wagons for shipment to export HDPE.

As reported by the MRC, at the beginning of last week on the cracker ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge capacity of 1 million tons of ethylene per year caught fire due to a technical fault in one of the factory settings. Then, market sources said that the fire occurred on Tuesday afternoon due to a malfunction on the compressor. According to them, the installation repair will take at least a week