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LyondellBasell secures permit to move ahead with its multi plant ethylene expansion program

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LyondellBasell Industries, an American public multinational chemical company based in Houston, Texas, has successfully secured a key permit required to continue with its ethylene expansion program began in 2013 at the company’s Channelview, La Porte and Corpus Christi plants which benefit from shale gas production.

According to Jim Gallogly, chief executive officer of LyondellBasell, by successfully getting the permit their multi plant ethylene expansion program is on target to be fully operational by the end of 2015.

LyondellBasell multiplying its ethylene capacity at the US Gulf coast

Related Keywords: capacity expansion, ethylene, LyondellBasell, Texas, US Gulf coast

The American multinational chemical company based in Houston, Texas, LyondellBasell, plans to introduce three major projects. The company tries to multiply ethylene capacity at the U.S. Gulf coast through these growth projects.

The company’s first project is the methanol plant at Channelview, Texas which was placed into service in fourth-quarter 2013 to take advantage of low-cost natural gas from shale formations. The unit had been out of service since 2004 due to the rising cost of natural gas, the key feedstock for methanol production, the company said.

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