History

Here is a brief history of our business purchases and achievements

  1. WL Plastics acquires Charter Plastics’ Titusville, PA manufacturing site

  2. INEOS acquires Sasol’s 50% interest in Gemini HDPE LLC

  3. New WL Plastics pipe manufacturing site constructed in Lubbock, Texas

    INEOS USA Oil and Gas business is launched

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    470 kta Innovene S bimodal HDPE line is commissioned at the Battleground Manufacturing Complex in a Joint Venture with Sasol NA

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    INEOS Olefins & Polymers acquires 100% of the shares of WLP Holding Corp., one of the largest high density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe manufacturers in North America.

  6. INEOS Olefins & Polymers and Sasol sign a memorandum of understanding to build a 470 kilotons per annum bimodal HDPE line at INEOS’ Battleground Manufacturing Facility

  7. INEOS Olefins & Polymers announces its intention to increase furnace capacity at its Chocolate Bayou No2 UNIT BY 465 Million pounds/Year

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    The southern Ridge Pipeline joint venture is dissolved: 4 pipelines from Texas City, TX to the CBW corridor are acquired

     

  9. INEOS Olefins & Polymers commissions a Bimodal Polyethylene line at its Battleground manufacturing plant. 
    Battleground Manufacturing Complex PP Lines 1 and 2 are decommissioned.

  10. INEOS Olefins & Polymers decommissions its Chocolate Bayou PP2 unit

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    INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA is formed

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    An additional pipeline is constructed 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

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    BPSolvay and Chevron Phillips commission a joint manufacturing HDPE facility at Chevron

    Phillips' Cedar Bayou facility

  14. BP decommissions its Cedar Bayou PP Plant and Chocolate Bayou PP1 unit

    A Hobbs CO2 treating systems is brought online

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    BP/ARCO acquires Solvay's PP assets and forms an HDPE joint venture called BPSolvay

  16. BP/ARCO merger facilitates the addition of a Unipol PP line at Carson, CA site

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    British Petroleum and Amoco merge

    BP Amoco builds a second INNOVENE process Polypropylene Plant called PP4

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    Unipol Gas Phase Polypropylene Plant is built at BMC

  19. Amoco purchases a depropanizer from Mapco for its Hobbs Fractionators

  20. Amoco begins supplying proprietary catalysts to licensees

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    The first INNOVENE PP license is sold

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    Amoco builds PP3, an INNOVENE gas Gas Phase Copolymer line at CBW site

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    300MM LB/Year HDPE line is installed at Solvay's BMC Plant

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    Cedar Bayou Slurry PP Plant is purchased from Gulf Oil Chemicals

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    Construction of two additional pipelines between Texas City refinery and CBW is completed

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    Amoco commissions PP2, an INNOVENE process Gas Phase PP Plant

    CBW 2nd stage Hydrotreater is built to separate Benzenes from cracker stream

  27. Solvay Bulk Slurry Polypropylene plant is commissioned at the Battleground Manufacturing Complex (BMC) in La Porte, TX

  28. CBW No2 Olefins unit is commissioned

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    Amoco builds Hobbs Fractionators Plant

  30. CBW №1 Olefins unit is commissioned

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    Construction of 5 pipelines to connect CBW to Stratton Ridge Storage Facility

    Construction of 6 pipelines to connect CBW to Amoco's Texas City Refinery

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    PP1 Slurry Polypropylene line is built at CBW site

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    Amoco purchases the Chocolate Bayou (CBW) site

  34. Celanese develops HDPE facilities in La Porte, TX

  35. Amoco pioneers research and development work in Polypropylene