据烃加工在线12月23日消息，韩国三家石化公司的官员们周二表示，亚洲最大石化生产中心之一的韩国的三套石脑油裂解装置在经过数月的检修和非计划停工后，将于12月和明年1月恢复运营。
贸易消息人士称，随着这些公司准备恢复石脑油裂解装置生产，它们已经购买了大量现货石脑油，将该地区的石脑油价格推高至数月高位。
一位消息人士称：“石脑油需求正在增长。所有这三套石脑油裂解装置都在恢复并重返市场。”
该消息人士称，由于利润丰厚，亚洲各地的石化生产商都在增加产量。
韩国乐天化工的一位官员表示，公司在12月初开始试运行其110万吨/年的裂解装置，并计划在本月晚些时候恢复商业生产。该裂解装置在今年3月份发生火灾后一直处于关停状态。
LG化学公司的一位官员表示，该公司计划在明年1月中旬至1月底期间重启位于丽水的裂解装置。这套年产120万吨乙烯的裂解装置在11月份因火灾而关停。
韩国第三家石化生产商丽川石脑油裂解中心（YNCC）的一位官员表示，该公司位于韩国丽水的石脑油裂解装置计划在1月14日完成检修和计划中的扩能项目后恢复生产。该公司另一位官员表示，扩建预计将于明年1月完成，将该设施的产能提高33.5万吨/年升至91.5万吨/年。
张春晓 摘译自 烃加工在线
原文如下：
S. Korea restarts three naphtha crackers, lifting Asian demand
Three naphtha crackers in South Korea, As the companies prepare to ramp up production, they have purchased large volumes of spot naphtha, lifting prices in the region to their highest in months, trade sources said.
"There is more demand (for naphtha). All these crackers are recovering and returning to the market," Petrochemicals producers across Asia are increasing output Lotte Chemical began test runs at its 1.1 million tonnes per year (tpy) cracker in early December and plans to resume commercial production later this month, a company official said. The plant has been shut since March after a fire.
LG Chem plans to restart its cracker in Yeosu between the middle and end of January, a company official said. The cracker, which can produce 1.2 million tonnes of ethylene per year, was shut in November after a fire.
A third petrochemical producer, YNCC, aims to restart A second company official said the expansion is expected to be completed in January, raising the facility's capacity by 335,000 tpy to 915,000 tpy.
