MOSCOW (MRC) -- Chevron and Bunge North America announced the signing of definitive transaction agreements to create their previously announced JV. The new venture will create renewable feedstocks leveraging Bunge’s experience in oilseed processing and farmer relationships and Chevron’s experience in fuels manufacturing and marketing, according to Hydrocarbonprcessing.
The agreements are subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approval.
Bunge’s soybean processing plants in Destrehan, Louisiana and Cairo, Illinois will be contributed to the JV with Chevron contributing approximately $600 MM. Plans include approximately doubling the combined capacity of these facilities from 7,000 tpd by the end of 2024. The JV may also explore opportunities in other renewable feedstocks, as well as in feedstock pretreatment.
“Partnering with Chevron, a global leader in energy, is a significant step forward in building the capability to make changes at scale to help reduce carbon in our own and our customers’ value chains,” said Greg Heckman, Bunge CEO. “I am confident that our shared networks, global footprint and expertise is the right partnership to build a successful long-term and low-cost enterprise that will help meet the demand for next generation, renewable fuels.”
Under the agreements, Bunge will operate the facilities; Chevron will have purchase rights for the oil to use as a renewable feedstock to manufacture transportation fuels with lower lifecycle carbon intensity.
As MRC reported earlier, Chevron Phillips Chemical (CP Chem), a joint venture of Phillips 66 and Chevron, will make a final investment decision on a new cracker in far southeast Texas in 2022, followed by an FID in 2023 on an USD8 billion joint venture petrochemical complex along the US Gulf Coast in 2023, said Phillips 66 CEO Greg Garland in early August, 2021.
Ethylene and propylene are the main feedstocks for the production of polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), respectively.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 2,487,450 tonnes in 2021, up by 13% year on year. Shipments of all grades of ethylene polymers increased. At the same time, PP shipments to the Russian market totalled 1,494.280 tonnes, up by 21% year on year. Deliveries of homopolymer PP and PP block copolymers increased, whreas.shipments of PP random copolymers decreased significantly.
Headquartered in San Ramon, California, Chevron Corporation is the the second-largest integrated energy company in the United States and among the largest corporations in the world. Chevron is involved in upstream activities including exploration and production, downstream activities including refining, marketing and transportation, and advanced energy technology. Chevron is also invested in power generation and gasification processes.
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