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20 July 2008

SABIC Europe Butadiene Unit on Force Majeure

SABIC Europe has declared force majeure on butadiene supply as its Geleen butadiene (BD) unit in Netherlands with the chemical plant operating rates reduced due to technical issue.

The butadiene unit has a capacity of 130,000 tonne/year butadiene extraction.
Butadiene supply gets major cut due to at least two other cases of butadiene forces majeures in other plants at LyondellBasell’s Wesseling, Germany, unit and the other at INEOS Olefins’ Cologne, Germany, site.

Butadiene is currently under extremely tight supply due to recent production issues, combined with strong demand both domestically and abroad pushing the price to record high.

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