Lawrence “Skip” Teel, Sr. VP of Olefins for Westlake Chemical and Jeremy Osterberger of BIC Alliance, right, visit after a strategic dialogue on “Petrochemicals: How feedstock demand is driving gas consumption” during CERAWeek 2018. Westlake Chemical's ethane-based steam cracker project joint venture with South Korea's Lotte Chemical in Louisiana remains on target for a late 2018 completion, with start-up expected in the first half of 2019.
