FILE PHOTO: PTT head quarters building is pictured in Bangkok, Thailand, January 5, 2016. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - PTT Global Chemical PCL said on Tuesday that it has resumed normal operations at its petrochemical units following an outage last week.

 

Heavy rain and storms caused the outage, an official from PTTGC, PTT Group's petrochemical flagship.

 

The spokeswoman declined to say which units had been affected by the outage.

 

Industry publication ICIS reported last week that three of five crackers that PTTGC operates were shut on April 14 due to a power outage.

 

PTTGC operates a 280,000 barrels per day refinery and has an olefins capacity of nearly 3 million tonnes per year, according to its website.

 

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This is not a cracker

 

 

This is a cracker

 

 

23 hours ago, Crossy said:

This is not a cracker

 

 

This is a cracker

 

I can understand it, but explaining it to your wife might be more difficult. ????

10 minutes ago, AgMech Cowboy said:

I can understand it, but explaining it to your wife might be more difficult. ????

 

It's ok, she thinks this is a cracker

 

Going back many years one of the places I worked had an ammonia-cracker used in the manufacture of sonar transducers. One of the waste products vented to atmosphere was hydrogen gas.

 

Of course whenever apprentices were in town the H₂ got captured in "convenient containers" which came in packs of 3 marked "Durex" (for our Aussie friends, it wasn't sticky tape).

 

The sight of a French Tickler soaring above the local villages must have triggered more than one UFO report (we were not a million miles from Warminster).