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Released December 06, 2021 | SUGAR LAND
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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Industrial Info is tracking more than $22.5 billion of Chemical Processing projects that are aiming for completion before the end of this year. As the remainder of 2021 ticks away, not all of the projects will make the New Year deadline and late-stage construction will slip into 2022. The projects vary in type and scope, ranging from multibillion-dollar petrochemical plants to smaller maintenance projects.
One of the largest chemical projects set for completion this year is in the final commissioning stage. Construction on Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) (Irving, Texas) and Saudi Basic Industries Corporation's (SABIC) (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) petrochemical plant in Portland, Texas, near Corpus Christi, kicked off in 2019. The massive undertaking includes an approximately 4 billion-ton-per-year ethylene production unit, as well as downstream units to produce monoethylene glycol, linear low-density polyethylene and high-density polyethylene. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Chemical Processing Project Database can click here for the detailed reports.
Another Texas ethylene unit also is in the final commissioning stage. Bayport Polymers LLC (Houston, Texas) kicked off construction on a grassroot ethane cracker in 2017 in Port Arthur. The facility at full operation will produce approximately 1 million tons per year of ethylene. McDermott International Incorporated (Houston) is responsible the project's engineering, procurement and construction. Subscribers can click here for the project report.
Other large-scale projects that were completed this year include Phase I of YCI Methanol One LLC's (Houston) grassroot methanol plant in Saint James, Louisiana. The plant, which was completed this summer, will produce approximately 1.9 million tons per year of methanol, which primarily will be exported to China, with 20% to 30% of production shipped by barge and rail to North American consumers. Future downstream derivatives units are planned. Subscribers can click here for the project report.
While "green hydrogen" produced from renewable energy and electrolyzers is garnering a great deal of media attention these days, production costs remain well above that of "gray hydrogen," produced by reforming natural gas. In Sweeny, Texas, Linde plc (Dublin, Ireland) earlier this year completed construction of a unit that will use a steam methane reformer to produce approximately 170 million cubic feet per day of hydrogen. Work on the project kicked off in mid-2019 and took about two years to complete. Subscribers can click here for the project report.
Coupled with green hydrogen are other derivative green products such as ammonia, but future production of these is still its infancy, so conventional production methods mostly figure into current project activity. Nutrien Limited (TSX:NTR) (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) this summer completed the expansion of an ammonia unit in Borger, Texas, about 50 miles northeast of Amarillo. The expansion implemented new technology and equipment to increase production capacity from 1,250 metric tons per day to 1,500 metric tons per day. Most of the ammonia will be used as feedstock for urea units. Subscribers can click here for the project report.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR), with global headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, six offices in North America and 12 international offices, is the leading provider of global market intelligence specializing in the industrial process, heavy manufacturing and energy markets. Industrial Info's quality-assurance philosophy, the Living Forward Reporting Principle, provides up-to-the-minute intelligence on what's happening now, while constantly keeping track of future opportunities. Follow IIR on: Facebook - Twitter - LinkedIn.
One of the largest chemical projects set for completion this year is in the final commissioning stage. Construction on Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) (Irving, Texas) and Saudi Basic Industries Corporation's (SABIC) (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) petrochemical plant in Portland, Texas, near Corpus Christi, kicked off in 2019. The massive undertaking includes an approximately 4 billion-ton-per-year ethylene production unit, as well as downstream units to produce monoethylene glycol, linear low-density polyethylene and high-density polyethylene. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Chemical Processing Project Database can click here for the detailed reports.
Another Texas ethylene unit also is in the final commissioning stage. Bayport Polymers LLC (Houston, Texas) kicked off construction on a grassroot ethane cracker in 2017 in Port Arthur. The facility at full operation will produce approximately 1 million tons per year of ethylene. McDermott International Incorporated (Houston) is responsible the project's engineering, procurement and construction. Subscribers can click here for the project report.
Other large-scale projects that were completed this year include Phase I of YCI Methanol One LLC's (Houston) grassroot methanol plant in Saint James, Louisiana. The plant, which was completed this summer, will produce approximately 1.9 million tons per year of methanol, which primarily will be exported to China, with 20% to 30% of production shipped by barge and rail to North American consumers. Future downstream derivatives units are planned. Subscribers can click here for the project report.
While "green hydrogen" produced from renewable energy and electrolyzers is garnering a great deal of media attention these days, production costs remain well above that of "gray hydrogen," produced by reforming natural gas. In Sweeny, Texas, Linde plc (Dublin, Ireland) earlier this year completed construction of a unit that will use a steam methane reformer to produce approximately 170 million cubic feet per day of hydrogen. Work on the project kicked off in mid-2019 and took about two years to complete. Subscribers can click here for the project report.
Coupled with green hydrogen are other derivative green products such as ammonia, but future production of these is still its infancy, so conventional production methods mostly figure into current project activity. Nutrien Limited (TSX:NTR) (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) this summer completed the expansion of an ammonia unit in Borger, Texas, about 50 miles northeast of Amarillo. The expansion implemented new technology and equipment to increase production capacity from 1,250 metric tons per day to 1,500 metric tons per day. Most of the ammonia will be used as feedstock for urea units. Subscribers can click here for the project report.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR), with global headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, six offices in North America and 12 international offices, is the leading provider of global market intelligence specializing in the industrial process, heavy manufacturing and energy markets. Industrial Info's quality-assurance philosophy, the Living Forward Reporting Principle, provides up-to-the-minute intelligence on what's happening now, while constantly keeping track of future opportunities. Follow IIR on: Facebook - Twitter - LinkedIn.
