MOSCOW (MRC) -- A planned overhaul of the large crude distillation unit (CDU) at Exxon Mobil Corp's 560,500 barrel per day (bpd) Baytown, Texas, refinery may take another two months to complete, as per Hydrocarbonprocessing with reference to sources familiar with plant operations.
Exxon has called the overhaul on the 280,300 bpd Pipestill 8 CDU and associated units that began on Jan. 14 the largest in the history of the Baytown refinery.
As MRC reported earlier, in October 2017, ExxonMobil Chemical Company commenced production on the first of two new 650,000 tons-per-year high-performance polyethylene (PE) lines at its plastics plant in Mont Belvieu, Texas. The full project, part of the company’s multi-billion dollar expansion project in the Baytown area and ExxonMobil’s broader Growing the Gulf expansion initiative, will increase the plant’s polyethylene capacity by approximately 1.3 million tons per year.
ExxonMobil is the largest non-government owned company in the energy industry and produces about 3% of the world's oil and about 2% of the world's energy.
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