MOSCOW (MRC) -- Chevron Phillips Chemical has started to restart its No. 22 ethylene unit at Sweeny, Texas, following a brief outage for planned maintenance, said Bloomberg, citing a filing with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
The unit was taken down on 15 May for maintenance on a gas-fired turbine. Emissions of ethylene, butadiene, propane, propylene and other materials are expected to continue through 25 May, according to the filing. The unit has an ethylene capacity of 676,000 tonnes/year.
As MRC reported earlier, in July 2014, Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem) received approval from its board of directors and obtained an environmental permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to expand normal alpha olefins (NAO) production capacity at its Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown, Texas. This investment will provide an additional 100,000 tpy of capacity. Construction completion is anticipated in July, 2015.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP manufactures chemical, petrochemical, and plastic products. The company offers specialties, aromatics, and styrenics for use in consumer and industrial products manufacturing needs, such as electronics, automobiles, appliances, agriculture, and pharmaceuticals; performance pipes; drilling specialties; polyalphaolefins; resin solutions; polyethylene chemicals; normal alpha olefins; specialty chemicals; olefins and polyolefins for use in plasticizers, synthetic motor oils, paraffin waxes, lubricants, antifreezes, paints, soaps, polyethylene resins, and household detergents; and extractive chemicals for use in drilling muds for oil and gas well, copper mining, and mineral processing activities, as well as in nylon, houseware, building and construction material, carpet, polyester, plastic utensil, DVD, CD, and videocassette manufacturing applications.
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