石油设备网讯 据路透社休斯顿报道，埃克森美孚周四表示，公司计划再投资20亿美元在其位于得克萨斯州贝敦的化工综合体，进行为期三年的扩建项目。
埃克森美孚将在2022年之前在贝敦增加一个每年生产40万吨聚合物的工厂和一个生产35万吨聚乙烯、蜡和润滑油原料的烯烃工厂。
埃克森美孚董事长兼首席执行官Darren Woods表示：“我们在贝敦的化工扩张将使我们处于一个稳固的地位，最大限度地提高二叠纪盆地产量的价值，并将给我们墨西哥湾沿岸炼油和化学生产设施提供需求更高、价值更高的产品。”
该公司预计，在包括美国第三大原油炼油厂在内的贝敦化学综合体的建设过程中，将创造2000个就业机会。
这是埃克森美孚利用得克萨斯州二叠纪盆地生产的轻质低硫原油的又一步。
埃克森美孚还在扩大其位于得克萨斯州日产量为365644桶的博蒙特炼油厂，增加了一个250000桶/天的原油蒸馏装置，以加工来自二叠纪的原油。
贝敦化工综合体的扩建是埃克森美孚在2017年宣布的200亿美元海湾计划的补充。
詹晓晶摘自路透社
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Exxon investing $2 billion in Baytown, Texas, chemical plant expansion
Exxon Mobil Corp plans to invest an additional $2 billion in a three-year expansion project at its Baytown, Texas, chemical complex, the company said on Thursday.
Exxon will add a plant producing 400,000 tons of polymers a year and an olefins plant that will produce 350,000 tons of feedstocks for polyethylene, waxes and lubricating oils at Baytown by 2022.
“Our Baytown chemical expansion will put us in a solid position to maximize the value of increased Permian Basin production and will deliver higher-demand, higher-value products produced at our Gulf Coast refining and chemical facilities,” said Darren Woods, Exxon chairman and chief executive officer.
The company expects 2,000 jobs will be created during the construction at the Baytown petrochemical complex, which includes the nation’s third-largest crude oil refinery.
It is another step in Exxon’s pivot to take advantage of light sweet crude being produced in the Permian Basin of Texas.
Exxon is also expanding its 365,644-barrel-per-day Beaumont, Texas, refinery with the addition of a 250,000-bpd crude distillation unit to process crude from the Permian.
The Baytown chemical plant expansion is in addition to Exxon’s $20 billion Growing the Gulf Initiative, which Woods announced in 2017.
