Ethylene

Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPP) is on target to bring its Midland-to-Sealy crude oil pipeline in West Texas into full service by early second quarter after completing pump stations and storage facilities along the pipeline, CEO Jim Teague said Wednesday during a call to discuss 4Q2017 earnings.

PTT Global Chemical pcl said late Tuesday it has a made a deal with a subsidiary of Daelim Industrial Co. to conduct a feasibility study and secure funding for a multi-billion dollar ethane cracker proposed for southeast Ohio.

ExxonMobil Corp., in collaboration with Spain’s Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica (ITQ), has discovered a “potentially revolutionary” material that may sharply reduce the amount of energy and emissions associated with producing ethylene.

Petrochemical giant Ineos Group, which now ships U.S. natural gas to European ports, said Monday it has clinched a long-term supply agreement to ship domestic ethane from domestic shale fields to China’s SP Chemicals.

A unit of DowDuPont (Dow) on Thursday said its world-scale ethylene production facility and enhanced polyethylene (PE) production plant in Freeport, TX, considered the backbone of a $6 billion buildout on the Gulf Coast, have begun operations.

Two polyethylene (PE) units, a key part of a $6 billion petrochemical expansion on the Texas Gulf Coast, have achieved mechanical completion, considered a major milestone, Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP (CPChem) said Monday.

The Dow Chemical Co. has begun commissioning an enhanced polyethylene production facility in Freeport, TX, one component of a major buildout to take advantage of abundant shale natural gas in the region.

ExxonMobil Chemical Co. has completed two high-performance polyethylene lines at its Mont Belvieu, TX, plastics plant. Production is expected to begin during the third quarter.

Enterprise Products Partners LP said it will tap the Permian Basin with a new pipeline to carry natural gas liquids (NGL) to its fractionation and storage complex in Mont Belvieu, TX.