History
Our History
Here is a brief history of our business purchases and achievements
INEOS ACQUIRES SASOL’S 50% INTEREST IN GEMINI HDPE LLC
INEOS OIL AND GAS BUSINESS IS LAUNCHED
NEW WL PLASTICS PIPE MANUFACTURING SITE CONSTRUCTED IN LUBBOCK, TEXAS

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

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

The southern Ridge Pipeline joint venture is dissolved: 4 pipelines from Texas City, TX to the CBW corridor are acquired
INEOS Olefins & Polymers commissions a Bimodal Polyethylene line at its battleground manufacturing plant and decommissions Battleground manufacturing plant and decommissions Battleground Manufacturing Complex PP lines 1 and 2
INEOS Olefins & Polymers decommissions its Chocolate Bayou PP2 unit

INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA is formed

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

BPSolvay and Chevron Phillips commission a joint manufacturing HDPE facility at Chevron
Phillips' Cedar Bayou facility
BP decommissions its Cedar Bayou PP Plant and Chocolate Bayou PP1 unit
A Hobbs CO2 treating systems is brought online

BP/ARCO acquires Solvay's PP assets and forms an HDPE joint venture called BPSolvay
BP/ARCO merger facilitates the addition of a Unipol PP line at Carson, CA site

British Petroleum and Amoco merge
BP Amoco builds a second INNOVENE process Polypropylene Plant called PP4

Unipol Gas Phase Polypropylene Plant is built at BMC
Amoco purchases a depropanizer from Mapco for its Hobbs Fractionators
Amoco begins supplying proprietary catalysts to licensees

The first INNOVENE PP license is sold

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

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

Cedar Bayou Slurry PP Plant is purchased from Gulf Oil Chemicals

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

Amoco commissions PP2, an INNOVENE process Gas Phase PP Plant
CBW 2nd stage Hydrotreater is built to separate Benzenes from cracker stream
Solvay Bulk Slurry Polypropylene plant is commissioned at the Battleground Manufacturing Complex (BMC) in La Porte, TX
CBW No2 Olefins unit is commissioned

Amoco builds Hobbs Fractionators Plant
CBW №1 Olefins unit is commissioned

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

PP1 Slurry Polypropylene line is built at CBW site

Amoco purchases the Chocolate Bayou (CBW) site
Celanese develops HDPE facilities in La Porte, TX
Amoco pioneers research and development work in Polypropylene