INEOS Oxide has confirmed Plaquemine Louisiana, Battleground Dear Park Texas and Chocolate Bayou Texas as the three sites to conduct a final detailed study to expand its Ethylene Oxide (EO) and Ethylene Oxide Derivatives (EOD) capacity as part of its strategy to grow its global business over the next few years.
“Following our announcement earlier this year, we have narrowed down the potential location for a final detailed study on our EO and EOD investment,” said Hans Casier CEO INEOS Oxide. “The work we have done since March has reaffirmed that the US is the obvious location for INEOS Oxide to consider its next expansion. It is a market we know well where INEOS Group already has a well placed manufacturing presence that is capable of taking full advantage of competitively-priced feedstock.”
“We are very excited about the project, which will be of a world scale size of at least 500kt of EO with appropriately sized Glycol and derivative units. The Battleground, Chocolate Bayou and Plaquemine sites have proved to be front runners in the screening study, which we have carried out so far. We envisage making a decision on the final location early next year when we will proceed with detailed engineering. Startup of the new complex is foreseen at the end of 2014.”