Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA Inc. is progressing on its previously announced plan to build a new steam cracker to be tied in with its current refining and petrochemical production operations at the US Gulf Coast.
The project, which will cover the company’s ethylene needs for its US derivatives business, will involve construction of a 1 million-tonne/year ethane steam cracker to be built near the operator’s current production platform in Port Arthur, Tex., Total SA said in a June 4 e-mail to the Oil & Gas Journal.