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(plasteurope) -- Chevron Phillips
Chemical (CPChem, The Woodlands, Texas / USA) has wrapped up the study of where
to locate two new polyethylene lines – part of the group’s US Gulf Coast
Petrochemicals Project.
At the beginning of May 2012, the US
petrochemical giant announced that the two lines, with an estimated capacity of
500,000 t/y each, would be built near its existing Sweeny / Old Ocean facility
in Texas. CPChem also said the lines, which will be designed by Jacobs
Engineering Group (Pasadena, California / USA), will utilise its proprietary
Loop Slurry Technology. CPChem’s current cracker capacity in Sweeny stands at
almost 1.9m t/y.
The US group simultaneously announced that it had
reached a front-end engineering and design (FEED) agreement with Shaw Energy
& Chemicals, part of Shaw Group (Baton Rouge, Louisiana / USA), whereby the
latter will design CPChem’s 1.5m t/y ethane cracker in Cedar Bayou, Texas. The
group said it expects to complete its entire Gulf Coast petrochemicals hub –
which will create about 400 long-term and an estimated 10,000 construction jobs
– by 2017. |
