Chevron Phillips Chemical completes Sweeny ethylene expansion
12/11/2014 12:00:00 AM
Chevron Phillips Chemical today announced completion of an ethylene expansion at its Sweeny complex in Old Ocean, Texas.
With the addition of a tenth furnace to ethylene unit 33 at the Sweeny complex, the expansion is expected to increase annual production by 200 million pounds.
Construction on the expansion began in 2013.
“This represents the next increment of expansion to our ethylene business," said Dave Smith, olefins and natural gas liquids vice president for Chevron Phillips Chemical.
"We’re building toward the startup of the US Gulf Coast petrochemicals project in 2017 and supporting incremental growth of our olefins derivative businesses,” he added.
Chevron Phillips Chemical’s US Gulf Coast project ncludes the construction of an ethane cracker at the company’s Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown, Texas, and two polyethylene units in Old Ocean, Texas, near the Sweeny complex.
The Sweeny complex is one of the world’s largest single-site ethylene facilities and is now capable of producing roughly 12 million lb/day of ethylene, or 4.3 billion lb/year.
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