BASF to use Air Liquide technology for new Texas methane-to-propylene unit

20-Mar-15

BASF will use Air Liquide's proprietary Lurgi MegaMethanol and methanol-to-propylene (MTP) technologies. BASF has contracted Air Liquide to provide basic engineering services at its planned world-scale methane-to-propylene complex at Freeport, Texas The plant is planned to have a production capacity of approximately 475,000 tpa of propylene. This project would be BASF's largest single-plant investment to date and is subject to final approval in 2016 by the BASF executive board. The Freeport site was founded in 1958 as the first BASF manufacturing facility outside of Europe, and is one of two BASF Verbund sites in North America and uses propylene in its manufacturing processes.