Austria’s OMV and Borealis have set dates for the shut down of their refinery and petrochemical sites in Burghausen, Germany, for a month-long maintenance work from the end of September.
The Burghausen site will be down from 30 September to 31 October. The restart process will begin on 1 November, with production expected to resume on 9 November.
The cost of the maintenance shutdown will be €42mn ($58mn) for OMV and €13mn for Borealis.
OMV runs a 68,000 t/yr refinery at the site, which is linked to Borealis’ petrochemical complex through a pipeline.
OMV supplies feedstock to Borealis’ 580,000 t/yr polypropylene and 175,000 t/yr high-density polyethylene plants at Burghausen, located near Munich.
Previously, OMV had only said that Burghausen refinery would shut during the summer.
OMV owns 36pc of Borealis, while the rest is held by Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC), which also owns around one third of OMV.
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