ChevronPhillips breaks ground on new Cedar Bayou ethane cracker
ChevronPhillips on Wednesday broke ground on its U.S. Gulf Coast Petrochemical Project at its Cedar Bayou facility in Baytown, Texas. ChevronPhillips is building a 1.5 million-metric-tons-per-year ethane cracker at Cedar Bayou and two 500,000-metric-tons-per-year polyethyelene facilities in Old Ocean, Texas. Local dignitaries attended a Wednesday ceremony to celebrate the start of the project, which is expected to be complete in 2017. ChevronPhillips will host another groundbreaking ceremony for the polyethyelene units June 17.