CPC announces completion of ethylene expansion at Sweeny complex, Texas

12-Dec-14

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP (Chevron Phillips Chemical) has announced completion of 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 mln lbs. Construction on the expansion began in 2013. The Sweeny complex is one of the world’s largest single-site ethylene facilities and is now capable of producing roughly 12 mln lbs of ethylene per day, or 4.3 bln lbs annually. “This represents the next increment of expansion to our ethylene business. We’re building toward the start up of the U.S. Gulf Coast Petrochemicals Project in 2017 and supporting incremental growth of our olefins derivative businesses,” said Dave Smith, olefins & natural gas liquids vice president for Chevron Phillips Chemical. Chevron Phillips Chemical’s U.S. Gulf Coast Petrochemicals Project includes 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.