據OGJ網站7月24日報道，埃克森美孚公司已開始在其位于德克薩斯州博蒙特(Beaumont)的聚乙烯（PE）工廠生產一條新型高性能聚乙烯生產線。(據OGJ網站2016年11月15日消息報道)

埃克森美孚表示，新投產的65萬噸/年的裝置將Beaumont顆粒狀和顆粒化PE的產量提高了65％，整體產能將達到近170萬噸/年。

埃克森美孚公司稱，博蒙特的擴建基于2017年在該公司位于德克薩斯州蒙特貝爾維尤(Mont Belvieu)的生產基地投產的兩條性能PE生產線所帶來的供應優勢，這將有助于滿足PE強勁的全球需求增長。

博蒙特 PE擴建是埃克森美孚公司2017年首次宣布的為期10年，耗資200億美元的“海灣增長”投資計劃的一部分。

郝芬 譯自 OGJ

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ExxonMobil commissions Beaumont polyethylene expansion

ExxonMobil Corp. has started production on a new high-performance polyethylene line at its Beaumont, Tex., polyethylene (PE) plant (OGJ Online, Nov. 15, 2016).

The newly commissioned 650,000-tonne/year unit increases production of granular and pelletized PE at Beaumont by 65%, bringing overall site capacity to nearly 1.7 million tpy, ExxonMobil said.

ExxonMobil said the Beaumont expansion builds upon supply advantages created by two performance PE lines previously commissioned in 2017 at the company’s manufacturing site in Mont Belvieu, Tex., that, together, will help meet strong global demand growth for PE.

The Beaumont PE expansion comes as part of ExxonMobil’s 10-year, $20-billion “Growing the Gulf” investment initiative first announced in 2017 (OGJ Online, Feb. 25, 2019).