Dow Texas Operations will have world-scale ethylene plant
20 Apr '12
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Projects announced as part of the Company's U.S. Gulf Coast investment plan are moving forward according to schedule.
The new ethylene production unit project is currently on track for start-up in 2017, and Dow continues to develop feedstock supply arrangements for this new asset.
On March 7 Dow announced that the Company's Board of Directors had authorized capital to finalize detailed engineering and purchase long lead-time equipment for a new, world-scale propylene production facility to be constructed at Dow Texas Operations. Basic engineering work for the new on-purpose propylene production facility at Dow Texas Operations has commenced, and the project is on track for production start-up in 2015.
In December 2011, Dow and UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, signed a technology licensing agreement, enabling on-purpose propylene production at the facility. Under the terms of this agreement, Dow will license UOP's proprietary UOP C3 Oleflex TM process technology for manufacturing on-purpose propylene from propane. Dow also signed catalyst supply and performance guarantee agreements with UOP.
Recomissioning work on an ethylene production unit at Dow's manufacturing site near Hahnville, Louisiana is progressing as planned, and the unit is on track to restart at the end of this year.