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Gas-based methanol units shut down later than expected

12-09-2021 17:02:59

Many methanol and downstream units to come onstream in H2

Shandong (JLC), July 14, 2021--There will be a total of 8.28 million mt/yr of methanol unit to come on line in 2021, of which 4.37 million mt/yr unit has been put into operation in the first half of the year.

07-14-2021 17:31:42

Falling operating rates of methanol units in southern Shandong

Operating rate of methanol unit falls in southern Shandong, affected by the environmental policy, and will decrease further due to weak fundamentals.

06-10-2021 10:22:23

NW China methanol price trend depends on new units start-up progress

The medium-to-long-term methanol price trend in Northwest China depends on the progress of new MTO matched methanol units’ start-ups.

11-24-2020 16:55:36

China speeds up removal of outdated methanol units in Q1

(The outdated methanol capacity hit 1.17 million mt/yr in the first quarter amid a falloff in production profits.)

04-17-2020 17:44:31

Review of China methanol units status in 2018 (Part II)

Shandong (JLC), January 16, 2019--China methanol producers kept phasing out the outdated capacity and relocating production, amid environment protection and the supply side reform.

01-16-2019 14:07:05

Review of China methanol units status in 2018 (Part I)

Shandong (JLC), January 15, 2019--China methanol producers kept phasing out the outdated capacity and relocating production, amid environment protection and the supply side reform.

01-15-2019 14:28:54

NG-based methanol units eye shutdown

Shandong (JLC), December 13, 2018--As of December 12, some natural-gas-based methanol units in Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Sichuan and Chongqing halted with capacity involved at around 4 million mt/yr.

12-13-2018 17:17:10

Global methanol units review of 2018

Shandong (JLC), December 13, 2018--According to JLC data, up to the end of 2018, the global methanol capacity grew to over 143 million mt/yr, with that in China, Middle East and America accounting for the most, which are abundant in coal and natural gas.

12-13-2018 10:14:31

Introduction to several methanol units to be put into production

Shandong (JLC), July 24, 2018--Since January 2018, China’s newly-added methanol capacity has reached 1.8 million mt/yr, including units at Xinneng Fenghuang (Tengzhou) Energy, Shandong Jinneng Technology, Anhui Haoyuan Chemical and ENN Energy.

08-14-2018 09:00:39

Natural gas price falls, gas-fed methanol units to restart

From middle November 2017, natural gas price surged as natural gas supply was short amid implementation of “shifting from coal-burning to gas-burning”.

01-17-2018 15:41:47

Industrial gas supply's influences on natural gas-based methanol units

11-21-2017 17:22:30

Concentrated maintenance of acetic anhydride units comes

Acetic anhydride always got high profit. However, profit of the product lingered around cost line from the beginning of 2017 and got negative number in January and February. But, the concentrated unit maintenance was bullish news to market participants.

06-14-2017 11:16:28

Run rate of methanol units in China (May 2017)

According to data monitored by JLC, run rate of domestic methanol industry rose slightly in May 2017, staying around 61.1%, up 4.3 percentage points from April. Affected by environmental inspection, some methanol units in North China cut run load or stopped operation.

05-31-2017 18:00:43

PE market is pressed against operation of new units

Domestic PE capacity is still growing. PE units of Jiangsu Sailboat, Zhongtian Hechuang and Shenhua Ningxia Coal will operate in 2017.

05-11-2017 10:36:47

Maintenance season of methanol units in southern Shandong comes

According to data from JLC that methanol capacity in Shandong totaled 6.22 millio nmt/yr with 3.6 million mt/yr or 58% capacity in southern Shandong.

04-11-2017 11:43:51

Run rate of domestic methanol units (Q1 2017)

Data from JLC showed that general run rate of domestic methanol industry averaged more than 60%, higher than previous two years.

03-24-2017 15:35:52

Run rate of domestic methanol units against better profit

Since October 2016, methanol prices at ports grew firstly resulted from decreasing import volume.

03-09-2017 17:17:43

Run rate of methanol units in northern China slips

According to data from JLC (former JYD), run rate of methanol units in China slipped to 62.54%, down 2 percentage points from that on November 10th.

11-23-2016 15:24:07

Methanol price in Shanxi grows considerably amid units’ maintenance

Introduction: methanol price moves upward greatly in China market after the National Day Holiday (October 1st-October 7th). Driven by price growth in Shandong market, methanol prices in Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Henan and Shanxi also grow accordingly.

10-12-2016 09:39:57

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