19 June 2014
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The steam cracker
will have a capacity of
up to 1.5 million tons per year
and provide ethylene feedstock for
downstream chemical processing,
including processing at two new 650,000 tons per year
high performance polyethylene lines
at the company’s Mont Belvieu plastics plant.
Photo : Business Wire
Steve Pryor,
president of ExxonMobil Chemical Company
“The project is made possible in large part by
abundant, affordable supplies of U.S. natural gas
for energy and chemical feedstock,”
The chemical industry and other industrial sectors
account for nearly 30 percent of U.S. natural gas demand.
“Shale development has provided U.S. chemical producers
a double benefit
as an energy source and as a key raw material
to make plastics and other essential products,
creating jobs and economic activity
across the value chain.”
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