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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The U.S. Chemical Manufacturing Industry is looking forward to a recovery in the coming quarters. After months of supply disruptions and crumbling demand amid the COVID-19 pandemic, production is regaining momentum as growth is anticipated among the industry's end users, according to the American Chemistry Council. Industrial Info is tracking more than 100 maintenance-related projects that are set to kick off at petrochemical facilities in first-quarter 2021, more than half of which are in Texas and Louisiana.
Click on the image at right for a graph detailing expenditures on maintenance projects at petrochemical plants across the U.S., by the plant parent company.
Texas accounts for more than half of the total investment value attributed to the first-quarter turnarounds, including all five from LyondellBasell Industries NV (NYSE:LYB) (Houston, Texas), which has the most of any company. Three are at the company's Bayport Polyolefins facility in Pasadena and are scheduled to begin and end in March: polypropylene units C, D and E, each of which produces 1.65 billion pounds per year. Units C and E were slated to undergo maintenance earlier this year, but the work was pushed back due to COVID-19 precautions. For more information, see Industrial Info's reports on the turnarounds for Unit C, Unit D and Unit E.
LyondellBasell is preparing for two other turnarounds on the Texas Gulf Coast: a polyurethane unit at its chemicals complex in Channelview, which produces about 800 million pounds per year, and a gas-fired power unit at its olefins complex in Corpus Christi, which generates 45 megawatts (MW). For more information, see Industrial Info's reports on the Channelview and Corpus Christi projects.
Earlier this month, LyondellBasell finalized an agreement with Sasol North America Incorporated, a subsidiary of Sasol Limited (NYSE:SSL) (Johannesburg, South Africa), in which LyondellBasell will acquire a 50% stake in Sasol's base chemicals business at Sasol's Lake Charles Chemical Complex in Westlake, Louisiana, for $2 billion and operate the newly formed 50:50 joint venture. Sasol retains full ownership and operational control of the complex.
Three units at the Lake Charles complex are set to undergo maintenance in the first quarter: a 920 million-pound-per-year ethylene unit, an alcohol production area and a 992 million-pound-per-year linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) unit. Work on the ethylene unit had been scheduled to begin in October, but was pushed back due to COVID-19 and damages incurred from Hurricane Laura. For more information, see Industrial Info's reports on the ethylene, alcohol production and LLDPE units.
Elsewhere in the U.S., Ascend Performance Materials LLC (Houston, Texas) is preparing for a series of regular maintenance programs across the South, including two at its nylon fibers plant in Cantonment, Florida: the production area, which manufactures adipic acid, hexamethylenediamine (HMDA) and nitric acid, and five natural gas-fired watertube boilers. Ascend also is preparing for a turnaround on two coal-fired and one gas-fired boilers at its synthetic fibers plant in Decatur, Alabama. For more information, see Industrial Info's project reports on the fibers plant and its boilers, and the synthetic fibers boilers.
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Click on the image at right for a graph detailing expenditures on maintenance projects at petrochemical plants across the U.S., by the plant parent company.Texas accounts for more than half of the total investment value attributed to the first-quarter turnarounds, including all five from LyondellBasell Industries NV (NYSE:LYB) (Houston, Texas), which has the most of any company. Three are at the company's Bayport Polyolefins facility in Pasadena and are scheduled to begin and end in March: polypropylene units C, D and E, each of which produces 1.65 billion pounds per year. Units C and E were slated to undergo maintenance earlier this year, but the work was pushed back due to COVID-19 precautions. For more information, see Industrial Info's reports on the turnarounds for Unit C, Unit D and Unit E.
LyondellBasell is preparing for two other turnarounds on the Texas Gulf Coast: a polyurethane unit at its chemicals complex in Channelview, which produces about 800 million pounds per year, and a gas-fired power unit at its olefins complex in Corpus Christi, which generates 45 megawatts (MW). For more information, see Industrial Info's reports on the Channelview and Corpus Christi projects.
Earlier this month, LyondellBasell finalized an agreement with Sasol North America Incorporated, a subsidiary of Sasol Limited (NYSE:SSL) (Johannesburg, South Africa), in which LyondellBasell will acquire a 50% stake in Sasol's base chemicals business at Sasol's Lake Charles Chemical Complex in Westlake, Louisiana, for $2 billion and operate the newly formed 50:50 joint venture. Sasol retains full ownership and operational control of the complex.
Three units at the Lake Charles complex are set to undergo maintenance in the first quarter: a 920 million-pound-per-year ethylene unit, an alcohol production area and a 992 million-pound-per-year linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) unit. Work on the ethylene unit had been scheduled to begin in October, but was pushed back due to COVID-19 and damages incurred from Hurricane Laura. For more information, see Industrial Info's reports on the ethylene, alcohol production and LLDPE units.
Elsewhere in the U.S., Ascend Performance Materials LLC (Houston, Texas) is preparing for a series of regular maintenance programs across the South, including two at its nylon fibers plant in Cantonment, Florida: the production area, which manufactures adipic acid, hexamethylenediamine (HMDA) and nitric acid, and five natural gas-fired watertube boilers. Ascend also is preparing for a turnaround on two coal-fired and one gas-fired boilers at its synthetic fibers plant in Decatur, Alabama. For more information, see Industrial Info's project reports on the fibers plant and its boilers, and the synthetic fibers boilers.
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. For more information on our coverage, send inquiries to info@industrialinfo.com or visit us online at http://www.industrialinfo.com.
