Chevron Phillips holds groundbreaking at Texas plant

CHEVRON PHILLIPS Chemical Company LP (Chevron Phillips Chemical) held a groundbreaking ceremony for its U.S. Gulf Coast (USGC) Petrochemicals Project at the Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown, Texas. 

The groundbreaking ceremony marks the start of construction for the USGC project sparked by shale resource development. The USGC project includes a 1.5 million metric tonnes/year (3.3 billion pounds/year) ethane cracker to be built at the Cedar Bayou facility in Baytown, and two 500,000 metric tonnes/year (1.1 billion pounds/year) capacity polyethylene (PE) facilities to be built in Old Ocean, Texas.

The groundbreaking ceremony included local officials Harris County Precinct 2 Commissioner Jack Morman, Texas State Representative Wayne Smith and other elected representatives.

The project will support 400 long-term direct jobs and 10,000 engineering and construction jobs. The estimated completion date for the USGC Petrochemicals Project is in 2017. The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) phase of the ethane cracker project will be executed through a joint venture between JGC (USA), Inc. and Fluor Enterprises, Inc., while Gulf Coast Partners, a partnership between Technip USA Inc. and Zachry Industrial, Inc., will execute EPC for the two new polyethylene facilities. Chevron Phillips Chemical will host a groundbreaking for the polyethylene units on June 17.