ExxonMobil Plans World-Scale Manufacture Of Synthetic Lube Base Stocks in Baytown

摘要

Houston,— ExxonMobil Chemical is building a world-scale facility to produce metallocene polyalphaolefin (mPAO) synthetic lubricant base stocks at its Baytown, Texas, refining and chemical complex. Engineering, procurement and construction activities for the 50,000-t/y high-viscosity SpectraSyn Elite mPAO plant have already been started and completion of the project is expected in 2013.