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Covestro Welcomes New Site Manager Enterprise Products Helping to Lead Way for U.S Greater LIFE ALONG THE TEXAS GULF COAST April 2019 $3.95 Covestro welcomes new site manager Enterprise Products Helping to lead way for U.S. energy renaissance KEEP YOU MOVING without joint pain Live life without joint pain. At Houston Methodist Orthopedics & Sports Medicine in Baytown, we know that joint pain affects every part of your life. With treatment plans customized for you, our specialists offer a full range of advanced nonsurgical and surgical techniques, including: • Innovative pain control methods • Physical therapy to improve mobility and range of motion Baytown • Latest technology, including minimally invasive surgical techniques • Presurgical education programs for joint replacement We can help you fi nd relief from joint pain — so you can keep moving. Schedule an appointment: houstonmethodist.org/jointpain 281.427.7400 Greater LIFE ALONG THE TEXAS GULF COAST OnBAYTOWN the cover Our staff PUBLISHER EDITORIAL Carol Skewes David Bloom managing editor Michael Pineda ADVERTISING assistant managing editor Dean West manager Alan Dale sports editor Demetri Zervoudis, a native of Greece, will oversee Matt Hollis Covestro’s largest manufacturing facility in North America, the Baytown plant, serving as its senior vice president. ACCOUNT Christopher James EXECUTIVES Mark Fleming See more, pages 20-21 Cathy Loftin Lori Knight ACCOUNTING In this issue P. K. Wolfe Misty Warner business manager We bring you the petrochemical issue of Greater Baytown in April with an introduction to Covestro’s Deborah Robertson new senior vice president, Demetri Zervoudis. IMAGING He replaces Rod Herrick, who will now focus on his new duties as venture manager oversseeing Bridgett Tucker CIRCULATION Covestro’s MDI investment project (page 6 & 20)). graphic designer Susan Jones Enterprise is driving growth with the Mont Carol Skewes Martin Castillo manager Belvieu complex centered in the “most extensive Publisher midstream network in North America.” (See page Garcia Daisie Herndon graphic designer 8). Kelly Pharr The Community College Petrochemical Industry hosted a Women in Industry conference that is inspiring many young women to enter the petrochemical industry. (see page 10) Read Gaby Torres latest article on Industrial heroes in 2019. (see pages 12-13) ExxonMobil recently invited area junior high students to “Introduce The Baytown Sun a Girl to Engineering.” The GCCISD and Barbers Hill students made potato batteries, fizzies and rockets in a fun-filled learning day. (see pages VOL. 3, NO. 4 All material herein c. 2019, Southern Newspapers Inc., dba 14-15) The Baytown Sun 1301 Memorial Drive Baytown, Texas 77520. Read J. Warren Singleton’s advice for young plant workers, following No material herein may be reproduced in whole or in part by recent area plant fires and the Crosby plant tragedy. (page 32) any means, including electronic retrieval systems, We pray for the family of James Earl Mangum, who died at KMCO, without written permission of the publisher. and the injured co-workers who continue to recover. If you have stories you would like to submit for Greater Baytown, www.baytownsun.com• 281-422-8302 please email to: [email protected] or david.bloom@ 1301 Memorial Drive • Baytown, Texas baytownsun.com 4 Baytown April 2019 Greater Thank you Contributing to our advertisers writers Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital - Page 2 Lee College - Page 3 Gaby Torres Chevron Phillips - Page 7 Gaby Torres has been passionate about writing since she was in Junior High. She Revac Keene Turbomachinery - Page 23 went to Sam Houston University where she graduated with a Bachelor degree in Multi-Platform Journalism. Exploring Patients Emergency Room - Page 24-25 her career she finds that informing an audience about what’s happening in West Chambers County Chamber - Page 27 today is very valuable to her. She is always excited about writing new things. Awards & Engraving - Page 27 Grace Women’s Center - Page 27 Hannah Vaughan Team, Re/Max One - Page 30 David Berkowitz Karla Opryshek, Coldwell Banker - Page 30 David enjoys shining a light on everyday people through stories and photos on The Baytown Project. He launched the Suzanne Gentry Heinrich, Main Properties Page 30 online endeavor in 2014 after retiring from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center during a 24-year career. Sherril Bates, Bates-Brinkley Realty - Page 30 Prior to that, he spent 10 years as a sportswriter/editor at newspapers in four states, including The Baytown Sun. Holly Jackson, Re/Max One - Page 30 Friends of Goose Creek Schools 2019 Bond - Page 31 Exxon Mobil - Page 44 Warren Singleton J. Warren Singleton, founder and president of the new Baytown Carver High School Recognition and Preservation Society. He is a local historian and writer. Baytown April 2019 5 Greater Covestro LLC welcomes new plant manager to Covestro Industrial Park Baytown Demetri Zervoudis succeeds Rod Herrick as site manager at the Industrial Park Effective Feb. 1, Covestro LLC welcomed In his most recent role, Zervoudis was With more than 30 years at Covestro and Demetri Zervoudis as the new senior vice responsible for the global polyurethane joint extensive manufacturing experience, Herrick president and site manager at its industrial ventures and propylene oxide / polyether is up for the challenge. His diverse back- park in Baytown, Texas, the company’s larg- manufacturing sites at Covestro LLC. He also ground includes various leadership positions est manufacturing facility in North America. led the Procurement function in the Americas in plant and process engineering, reliability Zervoudis succeeds Rod Herrick, who will region, while serving as the company’s health, and production management at Covestro step into a new role as venture manager, over- safety, environment and security officer. sites globally. In 2010, Herrick assumed his seeing the recently announced MDI invest- most recent position as site manager for the ment project for the Baytown site. “Throughout my career, I’ve had the Baytown Industrial Park, leading the facility opportunity to be part of restructuring through a number of changes, including the Zervoudis joined Covestro in 1983 as a initiatives that have helped to advance safety, transition to Covestro, as well as two major process research engineer. Since then, he has automation and innovation at our production hurricanes. led a diverse career spanning commercial sites,” said Zervoudis. “It’s an honor to be and production operations. Through these back in Baytown, where I have the chance to “It’s been an honor and a privilege leading opportunities, Zervoudis has gained exten- build on that experience and lead a world- the Baytown facility, and I’m looking forward sive leadership experience in research and class manufacturing team into the future.” to continuing to build my career here as the development, project management, strategic site heads into a new chapter of growth,” said planning and global manufacturing. His ca- Herrick will also play an important role in Herrick. “My new role not only allows me to reer journey has taken him to Covestro sites the site’s future, as he takes on his new role work with the team in a different capacity, but across the U.S., including Baytown, where he as venture manager, overseeing the largest to help shape the success of a project that will designed, constructed and started up several single investment project in the company’s define our future for years to come.” chemical units as part of an earlier expansion history. Covestro will invest more than $1.7 program. billion to build a new 500-kiloton MDI plant in Baytown. 6 Baytown April 2019 Greater Chevron Phillips Chemical is one of the world’s top producers of petrochemicals and plastics serving customers in 140 countries. We are proud to recognize the contributions of women in petrochemicals. :HVWULYHWRJLYHDOORIRXUHPSOR\HHVWKHÁH[LELOLW\DQGEHQHÀWVWRWKULYH ERWKSHUVRQDOO\DQGSURIHVVLRQDOO\:HRIIHUDUDQJHRIEHQHÀWVWRKHOS PDNHZRUNOLIHEDODQFHDUHDOLW\LQFOXGLQJÁH[LEOHZRUNVFKHGXOHVÀUVWUDWH KHDOWKFRYHUDJHDQGDWXLWLRQUHLPEXUVHPHQWSURJUDP Enterprise’s Mont Belvieu area fractionation and storage complex is the largest in the world and a global pricing point for NGLs. Enterprise helping to lead way for America’s energy renaissance The dramatic and ongoing transformation Enterprise completed nearly $2 billion of which has a nameplate capacity of 85,000 of the U.S. into the world’s largest energy growth capital projects company wide and barrels per day (BPD), increased Enterprise’s producer has altered traditional supply/ currently has more than $5 billion under system-wide fractionation capacity to more demand fundamentals and is driving construction. than 1.2 million BPD. unprecedented growth and opportunity for In Mont Belvieu and the surrounding areas Two additional fractionators are under Enterprise Products Partners L.P. Amid of Chambers County, Enterprise continues construction adjacent to the main Mont this changing energy landscape, Enterprise’s to invest in natural gas liquids (NGL) Belvieu complex in Chambers County. The Mont Belvieu area complex remains the fractionation infrastructure to facilitate new units will have a combined nameplate centerpiece of the most extensive integrated growing production from the major shale capacity of 300,000 BPD and are expected to midstream network in North America. The producing regions, especially the Permian be in service by the first half of 2020. When projects located either in Mont Belvieu or Basin where NGL volumes are expected completed,
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