Shell Chemical LP completed an expansion that increased linear alpha olefin capacity at its Geismar, Louisiana, petrochemical refinery by 425,000 metric tons per year. Production began in December. With the addition of its fourth production line, the facility has a total LAO capacity of over 1.3 million t/y. "[The] successful completion of [this] major expansion project makes Shell's Geismar chemicals manufacturing site the largest producer of alpha olefins in the world," the company said in a press release.
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