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DELIVERING PROFITABLE GROWTH
Chemical: Strategic Investments
We capture market opportunities in our Chemical business by developing world-scale projects that process
advantaged feedstocks, deploy lower-cost processes, and increase premium product sales, particularly targeting
growth markets. Our strategic and disciplined investment approach delivers superior returns throughout the
business cycle and across a variety of market conditions.
Our major projects in Singapore, the United States, and Saudi Arabia are all based
on the proven combination of advantaged feedstocks, lower-cost processes, and
premium products. These projects leverage proprietary technologies to efficiently
serve expanding markets and deliver profitable growth.
SINGAPORE
Our recent Singapore expansion illustrates how we identify and approach
new capital investments. The project doubled our steam-cracking capacity
at the site and significantly increased capacity for premium and specialty
products to serve the rapidly growing markets in Asia and beyond.
Enabled by dozens of new proprietary technologies, the world-scale
steam cracker can process an unprecedented range of feedstocks, from
light gases to heavy liquids, including crude oil. Converting crude oil directly
into chemicals provides a cost advantage over naphtha feedstock, the
industry standard in Asia. This technology also saves energy and reduces
emissions by eliminating the refining steps required to produce naphtha.
This crude-cracking approach is an industry first. It is also another step
in our ongoing search for advantaged chemical feedstock and demonstrates
our ability to innovate and extend our competitive advantage.
Crude cracking produces a wider range of valuable by-products that can be further upgraded to additional specialty products,
making this a platform for growth. We are developing plans for additional specialty product lines, including halobutyl rubber to
supply the growing tire market, as well as premium resins for adhesive applications. These facilities are planned to start up in 2017.
UNITED STATES
As the largest U.S. chemical manufacturer and natural gas producer, we are progressing a unique project that builds on
our proven integration model. In addition to capitalizing on the abundance of low-cost ethane feedstock, it will be enhanced
by advantages in integration, scale, and premium products.
The project includes a new world-scale ethane cracker at our site in Baytown, Texas, already the country’s largest integrated
refining-chemical manufacturing site. Feedstock and energy supplies will be coordinated with ExxonMobil’s Upstream
business. Two world-scale polyethylene lines, the largest in industry, will be added at the nearby Mont Belvieu Plastics Plant
to produce a mixed slate of polyolefin products, including metallocene polyethylene.
Based on sustainability and performance advantages, metallocene polyethylene
demand grows faster than commodity polyethylene and commands a market
premium. As the world’s largest producer of metallocene polyethylene, with
manufacturing locations in all major regions, we will leverage our existing
global supply chain and market-facing resources to further penetrate growth
markets around the world.
Based on our competitive advantages, we believe the Baytown
expansion project, with start-up planned for 2017, is well positioned
to outperform other announced projects in North America.
Enable and Exceed metallocene polyethylene resins provide
stronger, lighter, and lower-cost packaging solutions with
reduced environmental impact.
Naphtha
Feedstock
Eric Whetstone • Whetstone Design 
EDITOR
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