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ExxonMobil expansion Nearly two years after the first piles were driven to build the foundation of the ExxonMobil Chemical Baytown plant expan- sion, the facility appears to have grown a forest of construction cranes alongside Spur 330. Construction employment for the project will peak in 2016, company spokeswoman Deedra Moe said. By the end of the first quarter of 2016 – right about now – the workforce building the project will approach 6,000 people. Workers include carpenters, welders, ironworkers and electricians. Work underway now is on the working parts of a multi-bil- lion-dollar ethane cracker. When construction began, the compa- ny said the steam cracker will have a capacity of up to 1.5 million tons per year and provide ethylene feedstock for downstream chemical processing, including processing at two new 650,000 tons-per-year high performance polyethylene lines at the compa- ny’s Mont Belvieu plastics plant. While much of the early work was largely invisible to people outside the plant, the current progress is very visible with instal- lation of major equipment going on: towers, vessels, exchangers an steam-cracking furnaces. Start-up is planned for 2017. Information provided when the project was announced said it is expected to add about 350 permanent jobs at the Baytown complex. It should increase regional economic activity by about Construction continues in Baytown. Today, more than 6,000 workers are onsite working on the ExxonMobil North $870 million per year and generate more than $90 million per American Growth Project in Baytown and Mont Belvieu. year in additional tax revenue for local communities. 14 The Baytown Sun Industry Thursday, March 24, 2016 State honors top employers
Growing the petrochemical industry requires more than just building facilities: those facili- ties need people to operate them – and, if they are going to be op- erated safely and efficiently, they need people who are highly quali- fied and well-trained. Two companies with a big Baytown presence have shown they commitment to growth with big capital investments and also been recognized for their efforts at building the workforce to back that expansion. Each year the Texas Workforce Commission recognizes an Em- ployer of the Year for its demon- strated commitment to its workers and community and contributions to the Texas economy. In 2013, the honor went to Exx- onMobil. Two years later in 2015, it went to Chevron Phillips. In recognizing ExxonMobil, Chevron Phillips Chemical is building a ethane cracker at Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown as part of company’s U.S. Gulf Coast Petrochemicals Proj- TWC highlighted its initiatives ect. Construction began in 2014 and continues in advance of mid-2017 start-up. in support of science, technology, engineering and math education and particularly its ongoing part- nerships with Lee College and Chevron Phillips unit starts cracking in 2017 its $500,000 commitment to the Community College Petrochem- ical Initiative. (That support has Chevron Phillips is about 70 percent of the way toward completing 7,000 construction workers now working at the two locations – near since increased to $1.5 million.) its world-class 1.5 metric ton per year ethane cracker at it Cedar Bay- the expected peak level of more than 7,500. “The company is investing in a ou Plant and its companion project of two polyethylene units in Old Ethalene derivatives are a key ingredient in plastics manufacturing, workforce initiative to recruit and Ocean, southwest of Houston. particularly for polyethylene. educate thousands of new work- Taken together, the project is the company’s U.S. Gulf Coast Petro- Polyethylene is used for plastic film, packaging and containers, such ers in the greater Houston area chemicals Project, a $6 billion expansion that started in 2014 and will as the plastic used in food wraps and plastic bags and plastic contain- for chemical operations along the start up in mid-2017. ers. Taplett said the new polyethylene units will allow Chevron Phil- Gulf Coast. The nation’s largest Melanie Taplett, the company’s media relations lead, explained, energy company partners with “Chevron Phillips Chemical was the first major petrochemical com- lips Chemical to become a bigger player in merchandise bags while extending its capability in flexible packaging and high-performance workforce programs at nine Hous- pany to secure approval to build an ethane cracker and derivatives ton-area community colleges,” a facilities on the Texas Gulf Coast following the wave of new shale gas pressure pipe applications. TWC statement said. and oil developments in North America. When the new facilities are completed, they will support about 400 After last year’s award, TWC Major components of the new facilities are now in place, with about new permanent jobs. Chairman Andres Alcantar said, “Through its innovative part- Fun facts about to reach from Houston to San nership with local schools and Antonio. Workforce Solutions, the Chev- Delivering Your ron Phillips Chemical Compa- ExxonMobil expansion • It will contain enough cable ny’s powerful, local approach to to reach from Houston to Wy- • It will install enough steel to workforce development supports oming. make three Eiffel Towers. a highly skilled workforce while DAILY DOSE • If you stacked the pallets creating jobs for their region.” • It will install enough concrete of product the expansion will The company’s work with Lee of Local News to make two Empire State make in one year, it could reach College through scholarships, Buildings. the International Space Station mentorships and internships was baytownsun.com • It will contain enough piping – four times. also highlighted. Thursday, March 24, 2016 The Baytown Sun 15 Top employer: ExxonMobil ExxonMobil efforts
No surprise to anyone, ExxonMobil upheld its status as the area’s industrial powerhouse once Top 10 Area Employers again this year. The ExxonMobil Baytown com- reducing emissions plex comprises four manufacturing sites and one ExxonMobil Baytown Complex in Mont Belvieu. Among them, they employ ap- Goose Creek CISD The baytown Sun proximately 7,200 people and cover 3,400 acres. Houston Methodist San Jacinto Bayer Corporation ExxonMobil likes to talk about things that will increase with its ongoing ExxonMobil’s original plant, the refinery, tops the expansion project: increased economic activity, increased tax revenue for list of largest industries. The plant employs more City of Baytown JSW Steel area communities and increased employment opportunities. The company than 3,200 people and processes 584,000 barrels also likes to point out what is decreasing: environmental pollution. of crude oil per day. Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. Walmart Distribution Center According to ExxonMobil, the multi-billion chemical expansion proj- Home Depot Distribution Center ect – ExxonMobil Chemical’s largest investment in the U.S. ever – will Refinery TMK-IPSCO nearly double production with zero increases in the emissions the facility Source: City of Baytown is allowed. In a report on the expansion project, the U.S. Environmental 2800 Decker Drive Protection Agency noted that the project • Founded in 1919 shows that “economic development and ENVIRONMENTAL EFFORTS • Covers 2,400 acres • Covers 740,000 square feet environmental protection can go hand-in- ExxonMobil reports that the • Employs approximately 1287 full-time and • Employs approximately 700 full-time and 300 hand.” last decade has been good 2000 contract personnel contract personnel Emissions reduction was part of the for the plant’s impact on the • Manufactures as much as 584,000 barrels of • Home office for Exxon Mobil Chemical’s facility design. In a statement, the com- environment. crude oil per day Global Manufacturing Support and Engineering pany said, “All of the technologies we Since 2005: • Produces six petroleum products: Distillates: organization are using on the expansion project meet * ExxonMobil Baytown has Jet fuel, diesel; Gas: Refinery gas, propane; Gas • Home to employees who provide research and or exceed the stringent control technol- spent nearly $1 billion to oil: Heating oil, chemical feedstocks; Lubricat- development and technology support to Exxon ogy standards for new units set forth by improve environmental ing: Oils, waxes; Naphthas: Fluids, gasoline; and Mobil Chemical’s product lines the Texas Commission on Environmental performance. Residuum: Coke Quality, known as Best Available Control * Total emissions have been Technology. reduced by more than 29 Olefins Plant The environmental technologies and percent. Chemical Plant 3525 Decker Drive techniques are designed to minimize * The air incident performance, 5000 Bayway Drive • Founded in 1979 emissions, including nitrogen oxides including those that contribute • Founded in 1940 • Covers 320 acres (NOx) and Volatile Organic Compounds to hydrocarbon flaring, have • Covers 640 acres • Employs approximately 379 full-time and 375 (VOC). been reduced by 64 percent. • Employs approximately 750 full-time and contract personnel One of the strategies to reduce emis- * The three ExxonMobil 1,000 contract personnel • Manufactures more than 6 billion pounds of sions is also good for the bottom line: Baytown plants have reduced • Manufactures 7.2 billion pounds of petro- petrochemical products per year building in energy-efficiency to equip- upset emissions by 76 percent. chemicals per year • Produces three chemicals: ment operations means needing to pro- • Produces 11 chemical products: Polypropyl- Ethylene: Garbage bags, bread wrappers, pack- duce less energy, which reduces both ene: Battery cases, auto interior and trim compo- aging materials, wire insulation; Propylene: Car- emissions and costs. nents, carpet fiber, upholstery fabric, carpet back- peting, upholstery, pleasure boats, automotive At both the Baytown Olefins Plant and the Mont Belvieu Plastics Plant, ing fabric, molded goods, baler and tying twines, parts; and Butadiene: Tires, fabrics, engineered ExxonMobil is deploying pressure-assisted multi-point ground flares – a high-clarity films, medical supplies, packaging, plastics, rubber new move for its plant expansions in the United States. geotextiles and appliance parts; Butyl: Inner Flares are used to burn off waste chemicals. Given the importance of tubes, tire components; EXXPRO®: Adhesives, emissions reduction, flaring is mainly used in unusual circumstances, such auto body mounts, wire and cable; Bromobutyl: Mont Belvieu Plastics Plant as when a unit is being started up or shut down or when there is an upset in Tires, pharmaceuticals; Paraxylene: Polyester 13330 Hatcherville Road the production process. fabric, plastic bottles; Benzene: Raw material • Founded in 1982 The new flares being used, the company said, should result in clean, ef- used by the chemical and plastics industry; Or- • Covers 85 acres ficient burning that reduces greenhouse gas and VOC emissions and leads thoxylene: Raw material used by the chemical • Employs approximately 204 full-time and 150 to smokeless combustion, minimizing visible emissions. The flares should and plastics industry; Propylene: Polypropylene contract personnel also reduce visible flame and reduce low-frequency combustion noise – the and other chemicals and plastics; Butene-1: Poly- • Manufactures approximately 2.1 billion rumbling or roaring sound that sometimes accompanies flare activity. ethylene and other chemicals and plastics; Isobu- pounds of linear low-density and high density Much of the energy in the operation is used producing heat, so efficient tylene: Butyl rubber; and Solvents: Surface coat- polyethylene products each year furnace design is a major way to reduce energy use and emissions. Waste ing, ink, pharmaceuticals • Produces two plastic products: heat will be used to generate steam for use throughout the complex and the Linear Low-Density Polyethylene: Trash bags, combustion of process gas from the new unit in the furnaces will increase produce bags, grocery bags, stretch film, food/ energy efficiency and reduce emission of all pollutants. Technology and snack packaging, house wares, trash cans, wire At the Mont Belvieu Plastics Plant, the company said it strives to reduce and cable jacketing, plastic lids and caps the amount of waste gas sent to a control device. “(T)he design of the new Engineering Complex High-Density Polyethylene: Grocery bags, unit uses state-of-the-art technology that recovers as many molecules for 4500 Bayway Drive, Baytown, 77520 refuse bags, can liners, high performance films, re-use as possible. However, when recovery is not possible and gases are 5200 Bayway Drive pharmaceutical and oil bottles routed to the flameless thermal oxidizers, they reduce volatile organic com- • Founded in 1982 pounds by 99.99 percent.” 16 The Baytown Sun Industry Thursday, March 24, 2016 formation of a 100-foot right-of-way. Ster- ling also served one term as governor from Industry 1930 to 1932. He lived across the channel in Morgan’s Point in a small-scale replica of the White House. paves the way Gaillard Street is named for John Gail- Baytown Occupational lard. It was on his property that oil was dis- & Family Medicine covered in the early 1900s. Nazro Street was named for Underwood “compassionate and for Baytown Nazro, former vice president of Gulf Oil. comprehensive care Hugh Echols Boulevard is named for the for your whole family” everal streets in Baytown are named man who was president of Citizens Bank after those in the oil business. (now Amegy Bank) for many years. Pearce Here are a few examples. Street honors four brothers — Louis, J.E., Republic, Gulf, Humble and Lafayette and Oscar Pierce — who located SAtlantic Streets in Goose Creek were all their Texas Iron Works on Goose Creek. named for oil companies in the area. Aron Street was named for pioneer Dr. Fariborz Nazari Dr. Nazari is board certi ed in The founder of one of those companies, Goose Creek businessman Sol Aron. • Comprehensive Family Health Care Humble Oil, which is now Exxon Mobil, Several streets bear the name of local family medicine and is dedicated to using the most sophisticated tests to was Ross Shaw Sterling. It is fitting that land developers: Defee for W.E. Defee and • MRO Services Savell Street for Dan Savell. • Immigration Physicals help patients with proper medical Sterling, who also helped to lay out the assessment and health concerns. He Garth Road gets its moniker from High- early portions of Baytown, is the namesake • Complete Work Injury Care uses a team approach with a network lands developer J.W. Garth. Marion Street of Sterling Avenue. Sterling was also pres- • Return To Work Program of professionals to provide quality ident of the Dayton-Goose Creek Railway is named for the daughter of developer occupational health, family medicine Company. As owner of both the Houston B.B. Williams. • Physicals (Dot/nonDot) • X-Ray and wellness program that addresses a Post and the Houston Dispatch he merged Brickyards played an important role in person’s health, body, mind and spirit. the two papers into what eventually be- the early economic life of the area and sev- • On-site Lab Services came the Houston Post. eral streets remember former yard owners: • Diabetes & Nutrition Programs Serving the As chairman of the Texas Highway William Fayle (Fayle Street), John Kilgore community since 2000 Commission in 1930, Sterling was instru- (Kilgore Road) and Fred Gillette (Gillette • Preventive Services mental in highway development, including Drive). 4002 B Garth Road, Suite 150 Baytown TX, 77521 • 281.420.4000 Where Tradition greets Future
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With a combination of rail service and diverse capacity op- tions, the Cedar Port Industrial Park increased growth in 2015 — progress they aim to maintain this year. At nearly the size of Manhat- tan, Trans-Global Solutions Ce- dar Port Industrial Park provides the largest master plan rail served and barge served industrial park in the United States. “2015 was a good year for us, we closed multiple transactions,” said Joel Michael, SIOR,pPart- ner, NAI Partners. “And this year, we’re actively pursuing multiple deals right now that are at differ- ent stages of negotiations. The activity doesn’t seem to be slow- ing down too much.” Cedar Port Industrial Park, located in Chambers County near Baytown, comprises about 15,000 acres with heavy utilities and industrial and commercial transportation infrastructure. The park is both barge served and rail served by both Union Pacific and the Burlington Northern Rail- roads. And by investing in excess of $22 million in drainage and in- frastructure improvements, NAI Cushman & Wakefield photo partners gained momentum in Cedar Crossing Industrial park covers more than 10,000 acres. In the bottom of the photo, Cedar Bayou is visible, forming the western edge of the marketing and contracting new complex. To the left (north) is Highway 99, and at the top of the photo is Trinity Bay. tenants at the park in 2015. As of Dec. 31, Cedar Port Partners has An additional interchange will be and one of the largest industrial ties.” in La Porte, Braskem in La Porte, 11,079 acres available for sale or constructed as part of the master parks in the world,” said B.J. Si- In addition, TGS is committed Lyondell-Basell in La Porte and lease. plan by 2018.” mon, associate executive director to additional capital investment ExxonMobil in Baytown. Improvement projects include In 2015, TGS Cedar Port In- for the West Chambers County for 2016, including construc- And with the continued growth a major rail maintenance project dustrial Park added a handful of Economic Foundation. “Over tion of 40,000 feet of rail in the within the plastics and petro- and the completion of an addi- tenants. A few of the most no- time, it has served as a signifier of first phases of developing almost chemical markets coupled with tional drop and pull interchange table transactions include Ven- growth and potential of Baytown/ 90,000 feet of new track to store the growth in the Port of Hous- track system capable of receiving ezuela based PBP, Oasis Travel West Chambers County. Recent an additional 1,000 railcars in ton container market, it creates an and shipping 138 car unit trains. Center and Houston-based Clay industrial developments such as 2018. ideal setting for TGS Cedar Port “These tracks open up several Development and Construction the Borusan Mannesmann facili- TGS Cedar Port has also pub- to capture rail storage, packaging thousand acres in the industrial Company. ty illustrate this as actuality.” licly announced plastics manu- and distribution warehouse and park for future rail and marine Between those three, about And to give the industrial park facturer expansions, which are container terminal expansion in served customers,” said James 177 acres was sold, benefitting some conveniences, a truck stop one of the many industries and the greater Houston market. Scott, manager of construction both Cedar Port and the greater is being built. commodity groups that they sup- “The park has significant po- and infrastructure for TGS Cedar Baytown community. “We sold 6.12 acres to Oasis port via rail, barge and warehouse tential,” said Simon. “The ki- Port partners. “By adding the in- “In regard to logistics and Travel Center and they’re going packaging logistics infrastructure neticism demonstrated by the terchange railroad track, we have distribution, Cedar Port is a sig- to put in a full service truck stop at TGS Cedar Port. These in- new ownership bodes well not been able to improve customer nificant asset in the global sup- and perhaps some restaurants,” clude Chevron Phillips in Swee- only for Baytown and Chambers service and increase capacity for ply chain, home to Walmart and said Michael. “And this is to try ny, Dow in Freeport, Formosa County, but for the region and future tenants and rail customers. Home Depot distribution centers, and give the park some ameni- Plastics in Port Comfort, Ineos state as well.” No Place Like HOME
Construction of a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) facility in Mont Belvieu, represents Enterprise’s largest capital project currently under way. Approximately 1,200 workers are presently on-site with completion of the PDH plant scheduled for September of 2016.
For more than 40 years, Enterprise has been part of the Mont Belvieu landscape. Midstream pioneer Dan Duncan started Enterprise in 1968 with two trucks and a vision. Since then, Enterprise has become the largest publicly traded energy partnership, valued at approximately $85 billion, and ranked 56th on the Fortune 500. But the more things have changed, the more they have stayed the same. Through it all, Mont Belvieu continues to be the focal point of Enterprise’s midstream network, which is promoting domestic energy security by facilitating development of domestic energy resources right here at home. Mont Belvieu is home to Enterprise’s expanding NGL fractionation, storage and petrochemicals operations. The continued growth at Enterprise’s Mont Belvieu complex means economic bene ts for the community, job opportunities for its citizens and educational support for local students. Enterprise is proud to call Mont Belvieu home, and looks forward to a bright future together. www.enterpriseproducts.com