History
The industry leader that is INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA today has its roots in an impressive list of other strong performers. We have incorporated the best practices—the technological, organizational and marketing strengths—of these predecessors into our new company.
 1952 |
Amoco begins pioneering R&D work in polypropylene. |
| 1956 |
Celanese develops HDPE facilities at LaPorte, TX. |
| 1967 |
Amoco purchases Chocolate Bayou (CBW) site. |
| 1971 |
PP1 slurry polypropylene line built at CBW. |
| 1973 |
Constructed 5 pipelines to connect CBW to Stratton Ridge storage facility. Constructed 6 pipelines to connect CBW to Amoco’s Texas City refinery. |
| 1974 |
Amoco purchased Stratton Ridge storage facility. Solvay S.A. purchases HDPE business from Celanese. |
| 1975 |
CBW Number 1 Olefins unit commissioned. |
| 1976 |
Amoco builds Hobbs fractionator plant. |
| 1977 |
CBW Number 2 Olefins unit commissioned. |
| 1978 |
Solvay bulk slurry polypropylene plant commissioned. |
| 1979 |
Amoco commissions PP2, an Innovene process gas-phase PP plant. CBW 2nd stage hydrotreater built to separate benzenes from cracker stream. |
| 1981 |
Constructed 2 additional pipelines between Texas City refinery and CBW. |
| 1985 |
Cedar Bayou slurry PP plant purchased from Gulf Oil Chemicals. |
| 1987 - 1998 |
Constructed a pipeline to deliver ethylene from Texas City to the Houston shipchannel manufacturing corridor. |
| 1990 |
300MM lb/year HDPE line installed at Solvay’s LaPorte plant. |
| 1992 |
Amoco builds PP3, an Innovene gas phase impact copolymer line at CBW. |
| 1993 |
The first Innovene PP license is sold. |
| 1994 |
Amoco begins supplying proprietary catalyst to licensees. |
| 1995 |
Amoco purchases a depropanizer from MAPCO for its Hobbs fractionator. |
| 1996 |
Unipol gas phase polypropylene plant is build at Solvay’s LaPorte plant. |
| 1999 |
British Petroleum and Amoco merge. BP Amoco builds PP4, a second Innovene process polypropylene plant. |
| 2000 |
BP/Arco merger, adding a Unipol PP line at Carson, CA. |
| 2001 |
acquires Solvay’s PP assets, and forms an HDPE Joint Venture. |
| 2002 |
BP decommisions its Cedar Bayou PP plant and Chocolate Bayou PP1 unit. Hobbs CO2 treating system is brought online. |
| 2003 |
bpSolvay and Chevron Phillips commission a joint manufacturing HDPE
facility at CPChem’s Cedar Bayou facility. |
| 2005 |
Constructed an additional pipeline between CBW and BP’s Texas City
refinery. BP purchases Solvay’s remaining share of bpSolvay HDPE joint venture. BP spins off its chemical assets into a new company, Innovene. INEOS acquires Innovene. |
| 2006 |
INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA is formed. |