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The two-train polyethylene (PE) plant to be built near Corpus
Christi, Texas, by a joint venture (JV) between ExxonMobil and
Sabic will have a total capacity of 1.3 million metric tons/year
(MMt/y), according to an announcement today by Mitsubishi Heavy
Industries (MHI), one of the contractors on the project. Assuming
the two PE trains are of equal size, each would have 650,000 metric
tons/year of production capacity, putting them among the largest
ever built. Four linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) plants
that MHI built for ExxonMobil at Singapore in 2011 and Mont
Belvieu, Texas, in 2017 have a capacity of 650,000 metric
tons/year, as does ExxonMobil's new LLDPE line in Beaumont, Texas,
which is slated for start-up during the second half, and an LLDPE
line in Jamnagar, India, that Reliance Industries started up in
2017. ExxonMobil and Sabic announced their decision to proceed with
the project, which will include a 1.8-MMt/y ethylene plant and a
1.1-MMt/y ethylene glycol plant, earlier this month. Contractor
Zachry Group subsequently reported that it and partner MHI had been
chosen to build the PE plant.
