Fast Facts
General
- Chevron Phillips Chemical has approximately $7 billion in worldwide assets.
- Chevron Phillips Chemical employs over 5,000 employees worldwide.
- The chemical products Chevron Phillips Chemical produces are essential to manufacturing over 70,000 consumer and industrial products.
- The Chevron Phillips Chemical Performance Pipe division, which manufactures Driscoplex™ piping products, is the largest manufacturer of high-density polyethylene pipe (HDPE) in North America.
- In cooperation with BP Solvay, Chevron Phillips Chemical built the world’s largest single loop high-density polyethylene plant in Baytown, Texas at the Cedar Bayou facility.
- Chevron Phillips Chemical, with its joint venture partners, operates 36 manufacturing facilities in nine countries – United States, Belgium, Brazil, China, Colombia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and South Korea.
- Chevron Phillips Chemical is a trusted supplier to customers in over 80 countries.
- Chevron Phillips Chemical invests in strategic domestic and international growth partnerships. By partnering with local governments and investors internationally, we substantially decrease our time to market and minimize our capital requirements.
- Chevron Phillips Chemical has joint venture partnerships in eight countries – United States, South Korea, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, China,.
Safety
- At Chevron Phillips Chemical, safety is our number one priority.
- Chevron Phillips Chemical’s safety record has improved by more than 50 percent since the company's inception in 2000, thus affording us "elite" status among our industry's top safety performers. Chevron Phillips Chemical consistently earns top-quartile status for safety in our industry.
- Twenty (20) Chevron Phillips Chemical domestic facilities are designated as STAR sites through OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program.
Environment
- In the eight county area surrounding Houston, Chevron Phillips Chemical has invested $100 million dollars to reduce the ozone-forming nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions associated with our facilities by 75 percent.
- Chevron Phillips Chemical is committed to minimizing our impact on the environment. For example, numerous waste byproducts are also being regenerated and re-utilized in the manufacture of new products. We also actively participate in cogeneration programs and other positive steps to use energy efficiently.
Technology
- Chevron Phillips Chemical’s Loop Slurry technology is utilized internationally by numerous commercial reactor facilities, and as a result, is one of the most widely licensed processes in the world.
- In the 1950’s, scientists at Chevron Phillips Chemical’s parent company created two of the world’s first modern plastics – crystalline polypropylene and high-density polyethylene.
- Chevron Phillips Chemical has over 330 scientists, researchers and engineers dedicated to finding better ways to reduce manufacturing costs, streamline operations, and develop new technologies that improve the petrochemicals and plastics that are essential to our quality of life.
- Chevron Phillips Chemical currently holds more than 2,850 domestic and international patents.
- Chevron Phillips Chemical’s Aromax® benzene production technology is the industry’s lowest cost process for on-purpose production of benzene.
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