MOSCOW (MRC) -- Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem; The Woodlands, Texas) says its Cedar Bayou facility in Baytown, Texas, where the company produces its Marlex Anew circular polyethylene (PE), has received certification through the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification PLUS (ISCC Plus) process, said Chemweek.
CPChem has also signed a long-term supply agreement with Nexus Fuels as its first supplier of pyrolysis oil, an ethylene feedstock derived from plastic waste.
CPChem announced commercial-scale production of circular PE based on pyrolysis oil in October 2020. The company says it will seek ISCC Plus for additional sites as it expands its advanced recycling program, which aims to produce 1 billion lbs (450,000 metric tons) of Marlex Anew PE annually by 2030.
Nexus Fuels’ facility in Atlanta, Georgia, is ISCC Plus certified for the production of pyrolysis oil from mixed plastic waste. In November 2020, Nexus announced a four-year agreement to supply 60,000 metric tons/year of pyrolysis oil to Shell’s Norco, Louisiana, chemical production facility.
As MRC informed previously, in March 2018, Chevron Phillips Chemical, part of Chevron Corp, successfully introduced feedstock and commenced operations of a new ethane cracker at its Cedar Bayou facility in Baytown, Texas. At peak production, the unit will produce 1.5 million metric tons/3.3 billion lbs. per year. This unit is one of the largest and most energy efficient crackers in the world. In September 2017, the company announced the successful commissioning and start-up of two new Marlex polyethylene (PE) units in Old Ocean, Texas, based on the company’s proprietary MarTech technologies. Together, these assets form the bulk of the company’s US Gulf Coast Petrochemicals Project (USGCPP), which was first announced in 2011.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing PE and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's DataScope report, PE imports to Russia decreased in January-November 2020 by 17% year on year and reached 569,900 tonnes. High density polyethylene (HDPE) accounted for the greatest reduction in imports. At the same time, PP imports into Russia increased by 21% year on year to about 202,000 tonnes in the first eleven months of 2020. Propylene homopolymer (homopolymer PP) accounted for the main increase in imports.
Headquartered in San Ramon, California, Chevron Corporation is the the second-largest integrated energy company in the United States and among the largest corporations in the world. Chevron is involved in upstream activities including exploration and production, downstream activities including refining, marketing and transportation, and advanced energy technology. Chevron is also invested in power generation and gasification processes.
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