Shell starts production at new petrochemicals unit on US Gulf Coast
Completion of major expansion project makes Shell’s Geismar chemicals manufacturing site the largest producer of alpha olefins in the world.
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Completion of major expansion project makes Shell’s Geismar chemicals manufacturing site the largest producer of alpha olefins in the world.
Alpek, Indorama and Far Eastern will each have the right to receive one third of the capacity of PTA and PET produced at the Corpus Christi Project upon completion.
Services relate to the construction of a new acrylate styrene acrylonitrile facility on the US Gulf Coast.
Three new pipelines coming online in the second half of 2019 will deliver an onslaught of crude to the port of Corpus Christi.
This year the US will import more oil from Canada than all the OPEC countries combined – and 80% of those imports will be heavy oil.
The scope of work includes a new process unit, storage tanks, and interconnecting piping.
The partnership has divested terminals in Texas and Arkansas, US.
Transition follows sale of select refinery assets to Par Pacific.
Par Pacific paid US$45 million for the refining assets plus additional amounts for certain hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon inventory.
The company will correct alleged violations and pay civil penalties.
The company plans to upgrade capacity at the Sweeny Hub and invest US$923 million in refining operations.
Centerpoint BioFuels Plant will convert solid waste into low-carbon, renewable fuel.