History

Here is a brief history of our business purchases and achievements

  1. INEOS Oligomers opens a 420,000 tonnes LAO plant in Alvin, Texas, USA

  2. INEOS OLIGOMERS ADDED PRODUCTION TRAIN TO MANUFACTURE HIGH VISCOSITY PAO AT LAPORTE, TEXAS

  3. WHITING, INDIANA POLYBUTENE PLANT CLOSED

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    INEOS Oligomers expands its PAO Plant to 120,000 tonnes in Feluy

  5. INEOS Oligomers is formed

  6. INEOS acquires the INNOVENE business and product lines

    The Pasadena LAO Plant is closed

  7. BP acquires the remaining interest in ERDÖLCHEMIE

  8. Lavéra PIB Plant is developed to produce a full range of Polybutene products including H-6000 and H-18000. Grangemouth and Texas City PIB Plants are closed

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    BP Chemical opens a 250,000 tonne LAO Plant in Joffre, Alberta, Canada

  9. Amoco expands the Feluy, Belgium LAO Plant to 300,000 tonnes per annum

    BP merges with Amoco

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    After a series of de-bottlenecks in previous years, BP's Lavéra Polybutene Plant is further de-bottlenecked to 80,000 tonnes per annum

  11. Ethyl/Albemarle sells LAO and PAO business to Amoco Chemical

  12. Durasyn brand name created to replace Ethyflo as the product name for Polyalphaolefins

  13. Erdölchemie starts the production of Cyclopentane in Köln

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    Ethyl builds 200,000 tonne LAO Plant and 35,000 tonnes PAO Plant in Feluy, Belgium

  15. Ethyl purchases Quantum Chemicals' La Porte, Texas PAO Plant

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    Construction of a new Isoamylene Plant started in Köln, Germany

  17. Ethyl's Pasadena LAO Plant capacity is expanded to 431,000 tonnes. Ethyl enters a toll agreement with Quantum Chemical for production of PAO from Ethyl's Decene

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    The Whiting Polybutene unit with a capacity of 75,000 tonnes per annum is started at Amoco's Oil Refinery in Indiana

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    Ethyl adds 110,000 tonnes LAO capacity to the Pasadena LAO Plant

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    Ethyl adds 90,000 tonnes of Alpha Olefin production to its primary Alcohols Complex in Pasadena, Texas, licensing Ziegler Technology

  21. BP Chemicals Polybutene unit at Grangemouth is commissioned

    Amoco's (formerly Standard Oil of Indiana) Texas City Polybutene unit begins operation with initial capacity of 77,000 tonnes per annum

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    Polybutene Plant at Lavéra, France is commissioned by Naphtachimie, with an initial capacity of 5,000 tonnes per annum

  23. DIB unit in Köln begins under the Erdölchemie venture (Bayer/ Deutsche BP)

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    Standard Oil of Indiana builds the Wood River No1 Polybutene unit to produce synthetic lubricants under the Indopol trade name