Orange Texas Cracker
From Global Energy Monitor
Dow Orange Texas Cracker is a cracker plant near in Orange, Texas, United States.[1].
Location
Background on Plant
The plant began in 2017 under the ownership of DuPont at a capacity of 680,000 tonnes/year. [2] After Dow and DuPont merged to become DowDuPont the companies subsequently broke up and the new Dow obtained ownership of the cracker plant. In 2020, Dow completed a 91,000 tonne/year expansion to the plant raising its capacity to 771,000 tonnes/year.[3]. During the 2021 Texas Ice Storm, the plant was one of many forced to stop operations.[4] According to Everchem, a sales and marketing company focused on urethane production, the plant had resumed operation on or before March 5th, 2021.[5]
Project Details
- Sponsor:Dow [3]
- Parent Company:
- Location: Orange, TX, USA.
- Location Accuracy:
- Coordinates: 30.0539792,-93.7545079[1]
- Status: Operation [5]
- Capacity: 771,000 tons/year[3]
- Start date:2017 [6]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 EIA Layer Information for interactive State Maps -- Ethylene Crackers updated 1/13/2020 Accessed May 20, 2021
- ↑ ICIS - Dupont Joins New US Cracker Wave Accessed June 4, 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Dow aims to complete Texas cracker expansion in Q1 2020 Accessed June 4th, 2021.
- ↑ Plant status: Dow's US Orange cracker, PE plant shut due to winter storm Accessed June 4, 2021.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Today's Petrochemical Update March 5th, 2021 Accessed June 4th, 2021.
- ↑ DuPont's Orange, Texas, steam cracker flaring amid startup: filing Accessed June 4, 2021.
