UNITED STATES: Axiall and Lotte decide to go ahead with Lake Charles ethylene plant

Axiall Corp. and Lotte Chemical have decided to proceed with construction of a new ethane-based ethylene cracker in Lake Charles, LA, USA.

 

The plant, expected to produce about 1-million t/y of ethylene, will provide partial backward integration for Axiall's vinyls business and will supply an adjacent 700,000-t/y monoethylene glycol unit being built by Lotte.

LACC LLC, a joint venture of Axiall and Lotte, will build the ethylene cracker. It will be located next to Axiall's largest chlor-alkali plant. Construction is scheduled to begin in the second quarter of 2016 with start-up anticipated in the beginning of 2019.

CB&I will execute the main steam cracker contract, based on its own technology, following successful completion of front-end engineering and design, and other early stage engineering works.

Source: Weekly “PetroChemical News”, Durham, NC, USA; 21 Dec 2015
(Syed Rashid Ali, Karachi, Pakistan)