Since opening in 1920, it has expanded to four manufacturing sites, including a plastics plant in nearby mont belvieu, as well as a global technology center—spanning 3,400 acres along the houston ship channel With highly integrated facilities and a workforce of. Exxonmobil 's baytown refinery is a major oil refinery named after and located in baytown, texas It has capacity of 588,000 barrels per day (93,500 m 3 /d) [1] the site first opened in 1919 and was originally operated by the humble oil company Today, it is the largest employer in the city
The plant has been expanded over the year to 3,400 acres (14 km 2) of land next to the houston ship. About us founded in 1919, exxonmobil’s baytown refinery began operation in 1920 and the chemical plant started up in 1940 Eventually, we commenced operations on our olefins plant in 1979, as well as our plastics plant in mont belvieu, texas, in 1982 Our baytown area operations are located on approximately 3,400 acres along the houston ship channel, about 25 miles east of houston The exxonmobil baytown olefines plant annex is located along the houston ship channel in baytown, texas The plant is one of the largest ethylene plants in the world with an ethane cracker that has a capacity of 1.5 million tons per year
The baytown plant also produces its own. Upon first announcing the project in march 2022, exxonmobil said use of hydrogen produced by the planned project as a fuel at the baytown olefins plant could reduce the integrated complex’s co 2. Operational incident overview on a wednesday evening in may 2025, exxonmobil reported an operational issue at its baytown olefins plant, triggering safety flaring visible up to four miles away While the company emphasized there was “no cause for alarm,” the incident highlighted vulnerabilities in managing one of the world’s largest integrated refining and chemical complexes
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