Chocolate Bayou completes successful ethylene unit expansion and turnaround
20-May-2005
The project - which successfully produced prime product within just 26 hours of feedstock being introduced - adds 650 MMIbs of ethylene capacity to site, one of the largest olefins capacity expansions in North America this year.
During the construction project, employees and contractors recorded approximately 3.5 million work hours and had an OSHA Recordable Incident Rate of less than 0.05.
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