According to the company's marketing manager Qamal Berbehani, operations were normal and rates at KPPC's aromatics complex were at 100% nameplate capacity.
Earlier on Friday, Platts reported that the Kuwait Petroleum Corp. cancelled a November LPG tender late Wednesday, citing "operational reasons," without providing any further details on the matter.
The company official said he was unaware of any problems at the refinery, nor had they received any notification that feedstock supplies for their aromatics complex would be reduced.
KPPC's aromatics complex, Kuwait's first, is able to produce 830,000 mt/year of paraxylene and 390,000 mt/year of benzene. The plant utilizes 2.5 million mt/year of naphtha feedstock from the nearby Mina Abdullah refinery owned by the Kuwait National Petroleum Company.
KPPC is the paraxylene and benzene arm of Kuwait Aromatics Company, or KARO, which was formed to run the aromatics complex in Kuwait. KARO is jointly owned by KNPC (40%), Petrochemical Industries Company (40%) and Qurain Petrochemicals Company (20%).
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