INEOS has indefinitely suspended its proposed ethylene oxide/ethylene glycol (EO/EG) plant that it planned to build at its Battleground complex in La Porte, Texas, as per ICIS. Though suspended, the project has not been cancelled, said Charles Saunders, spokesman. No reasons were mentioned for suspending the project. Earlier this month, INEOS wrote to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the project had been discontinued.
INEOS and other companies had announced new projects in the US to take advantage of low-cost feedstock, made possible by the advent of shale gas. However, a small number of these companies have started withdrawing their plans.
A joint venture made up of Mitsui and Idemitsu Kosan has withdrawn its air permit application for a 330,000 tpa alpha olefins plant in Freeport, Texas.
PetroLogistics, now owned by Flint Hills Resources, abandoned its plans to expand its propane dehydrogenation capacity.
In December 2013, Shell decided not to build a US$12.5 bln gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant in Louisiana because the project became too expensive.
03-Nov-14 
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