Anew linear alpha olefins unit that ExxonMobil expects to open in 2022 at its Baytown, Texas, refinery should reduce the company's reliance on competitors for LAO as a feedstock for making polyal-phaolefins. The $2 billion expansion project will include an LAO unit expected to produce about 350,000 metric tons per year. The LAO plant will have global distribution capability. ExxonMobil has PAO plants in Baytown and Beaumont, Texas, and in Gravenchon, France. The company would not say if it plans to use Baytown LAOs in its PAO business.
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