The new year, the United States is expected to have a substantial increase in propylene production capacity, as a new propane dehydrogenation unit will be put into operation, while some new cracker will be put into operation, but propylene downstream derivatives remained stable.
EPP's original 750,000 tpa new PDH unit was originally scheduled to go live in September 2017. However, due to the strong Hurricane Harvey in late August, the unit's start-up time was forced to be postponed until 2017 Year in November, while market participants said the device started its construction by the end of November, but the EPP said in a filing to the government that the device's start-up activity will continue until the end of January this year, which means that the PDH device Officially put into operation in February this year.
Hurricane Harvey led to an unplanned shutdown of propylene production at multiple refineries and olefin plants in the United States, with the exception of the PDH plant being deferred.Although many unscheduled shutdowns resumed production within a few weeks after the hurricane, some olefin plants were suspended until the current year In November, one of the facilities was suspended until December.