History
A Proud Heritage
The industry leader that is INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA today has its roots in an impressive list of other strong performers. We have incorporated the best practices—the technological, organizational and marketing strengths—of these predecessors into our new company.
 2006 | INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA is formed. |
| 2005 | Constructed an additional pipeline between the Chocolate Bayou Works (CBW) and Texas City. BP purchases Solvay’s remaining share of bpSolvay HDPE joint venture. BP spins off its chemical assets into a new company, Innovene. INEOS acquires Innovene. CBW starts up new world-scale cracking furnaces. |
| 2003 | bpSolvay and Chevron Phillips commission a joint manufacturing HDPE facility at CPChem’s Cedar Bayou facility. |
| 2002 | Decommisioning of Cedar Bayou PP plant and Chocolate Bayou PP1 unit. Hobbs CO2 treating system is brought online. |
| 2001 | BP acquires Solvay’s PP assets, and forms an HDPE Joint Venture. |
| 2000 | Arco merger adds a Unipol PP line at Carson, CA. |
| 1999 | British Petroleum and Amoco merge. BP Amoco builds PP4, a third gas-phase polypropylene plant. |
| 1996 | Unipol gas-phase polypropylene plant is built at Solvay's La Porte plant. |
| 1995 | Amoco purchases a depropanizer from MAPCO for its Hobbs fractionator. |
| 1994 | Amoco begins supplying proprietary catalyst to licensees. |
| 1993 | The first Amoco PP license is sold commercially. |
| 1992 | Amoco builds PP3, a gas phase impact copolymer line, at CBW. |
| 1990 | 300m lb/year HDPE line installed at Solvay's La Porte plant. |
| 1987 - 1998 | Constructed a pipeline to deliver ethylene from Texas City to the Houston ship channel manufacturing corridor. |
| 1985 | Cedar Bayou slurry PP plant purchased from Gulf Oil Chemicals. |
| 1981 | Constructed 2 additional pipelines between Texas City refinery and CBW. |
| 1979 | Amoco commissions PP2, a gas-phase PP plant. CBW 2nd stage hydrotreater built to separate benzenes from cracker steam. |
| 1978 | Solvay bulk slurry polypropylene plant commissioned. |
| 1977 | CBW Number 2 Olefins unit commissioned. |
| 1976 | Amoco builds Hobbs fractionator plant. |
| 1975 | CBW Number 1 Olefins unit commissioned. |
| 1974 | Amoco purchased Stratton Ridge storage facility. Solvay S.A. purchases HDPE business from Celanese. |
| 1973 | Constructed 5 pipelines to connect CBW to Stratton Ridge storage facility. Constructed 5 pipelines to connect CBW to Amoco's Texas City Refinery. |
| 1971 | PP1 slurry polypropylene line built at CBW. |
| 1967 | Amoco purchases CBW. |
| 1956 | Celanese develops HDPE facilities at La Porte, TX. |
| 1952 | Amoco begins pioneering work in polypropylene. |
