MOSCOW (MRC) -- Yokogawa Electric Corp. has been selected as the main automation contractor for Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP’s USGC Petrochemicals Project, as per Plastemart.
The project, first announced in March 2011, will include an ethane cracker with capacity to produce 1.5 mln tpa and two new polyethylene facilities, each with an annual capacity of 500,000 tons.
The ethane cracker will be built at Chevron Phillips Chemical’s Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown, Texas, and two polyethylene units will be built at a site in Old Ocean, also in Texas and near Chevron Phillips Chemical’s Sweeny plant.
As the Main Automation Contractor for the project, Yokogawa will supply the control systems, safety systems, remote instrument enclosures, and the analyzer shelters and analytical systems.
As MRC wrote previously, Chevron Phillips Chemical, the petrochemical venture of US oil producer Chevron Corp. and refiner Phillips 66, has recently finalized the sale of its Chinese polystyrene business to Grand Astor Ltd. Nevertheless, Chevron Phillips Chemical says it will maintain its long, committed presence in China and the Asia region through both local and regional manufacturing as well as its extensive marketing network, which provides value-added products to the region including polyethylene, polypropylene, alpha olefins, specialty chemicals, aromatics, engineering polymers and styrenics.
Chevron Phillips Chemica, headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas (north of Houston), US,l is one of the world’s top producers of olefins and polyolefins and a leading supplier of aromatics, alpha olefins, styrenics, specialty chemicals, piping, and proprietary plastics. Chevron and Phillips 66 each own 50% of Chevron Phillips Chemical.
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