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Article: Shell Chemical to Increase Capacity of Deer Park, Texas, Plant.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- June 22, 2001
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Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 22--Shell Chemical said Thursday it plans to spend about $400 million to boost the capacity of its olefins plant in Deer Park.
By removing production bottlenecks -- particularly in a steam cracker whose current capacity limits the output -- the plant will increase its capacity to produce ethylene by some 1.1 billion pounds per year, bringing the new capacity to 2.86 billion pounds per year.
The added capacity is expected to come on stream in late 2003, the company said.
The plant makes what are called lower olefins, such as ethylene and propylene, which are building blocks ...