Ineos AG is planning to double the size of subsidiary Ineos Oxide’s proposed ethylene oxide (EO) and ethylene oxide derivatives (EOD) plant to be built somewhere along the US Gulf Coast.
Part of Ineos’ plan to address a fast-growing EO merchant market as well as the operator’s own requirements, the new plant—which will now produce 520,000 tonnes/year of EO—is slated to be operational sometime in 2023, Ineos said.
Besides installing its own on-site ethoxylate derivative capacity and infrastructure to deliver customers by railways, Ineos said it plans to allow interested third parties to co-locate on-site and consume EO by pipeline.
The company informed that for the new plant it is considering several sites along the USGC, but is yet to reveal an accurate location for the project.