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As reported earlier, a fire broke out at Chandra Asri’s petrochemical plant last Saturday due to a leak pipeline at furnace number 101. There is no shutdown required, however, the company is forced to reduce operating rate at its naphtha cracker to about 75%, according to a source close to the company.

The cracker is able to produce 860,000 tons/year of ethylene, 470,000 tons/year of propylene and 100,000 tons/year of butadiene. Other downstream units are not affected by the incident. It might take Chandra Asri up to a week to come back to regular run rate, sources said.