BASF confirms plans for world-scale cracker on the Gulf Coast
BASF Corp. has confirmed plans that it will build a world-scale cracker on the Gulf Coast. The company has completed preliminary work, and {open_quotes}the results of our project analysis have been extremely encouraging,{close_quotes} says chemicals president Carl A. Jennings. {open_quotes}We`ll proceed with high priority to have the cracker ready for startup in second-half 2000.{close_quotes} The company says it will select a location for the project by mid-1977. In addition to considering its sites at Geismar, LA; Freeport, TX; and Altamira, Mexico, BASF says that {open_quotes}cooperative arrangements{close_quotes} are being looked at. That could include locating the project at a different site, adjacent to a feedstock source, according to Jennings. He says the project could also include joint venture partners.
- OSTI ID:
- 530441
- Journal Information:
- Chemical Week, Vol. 159, Issue 4; Other Information: PBD: 29 Jan 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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