Texas Petrochemicals restarts successfully after Hurricane Humberto

20-Sep-07

Texas Petrochemicals, Inc's Port Neches facility has safely resumed its operations post Hurrican Humberto. All its units are successfully on line following a short outage as a result of Hurricane Humberto's landfall in southeast Texas. There was minimal damage sustained and plant security and environmental systems remained intact throughout the duration of the shutdown. Severe weather resulted in a partial loss of power at the facility that resulted in a plant shutdown. TPC's Houston and Baytown facilities were not impacted by the storm and have maintained normal operations. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Texas Petrochemicals Inc. is a premier chemical company with more than $1.5 billion in annual sales. Its products are sold to a wide range of performance, specialty and intermediate markets, including synthetic rubber, fuel additives, plastics and detergents. TPC specializes in the polymerization of C4 hydrocarbons- butadiene, butene-1, raffinate, isobutylene and isobutylene polymers.