THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS (October 7, 2008) - Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (Chevron Phillips Chemical) named its Orange Chemical Plant in Orange, Texas, the recipient of the company's top 2008 President's Environmental Award for superior environmental stewardship efforts. Twenty-three additional company sites earned environmental honors as well.
"At Chevron Phillips Chemical, we believe nature matters," said Greg Garland, president and CEO. "That's why we are committed to reducing our environmental footprint while continuing to provide top-quality consumer and industrial products for our customers. We operate in 35 communities around the world, and we take our responsibility to each of these communities seriously," he said.
Chevron Phillips Chemical established the President's Environmental Award as a way to recognize its global facilities for exemplary environmental performance. The award recognizes both chemical and non-chemical operations and emphasizes environmental leadership, efficient stewardship of natural resources as well as energy conservation, and waste reduction. This is the third year of the company's recognition program, which acknowledges facilities that are demonstrating environmental stewardship.
The Orange Chemical Plant received the company's top environmental honor for 2008 by demonstrating environmental leadership beyond compliance, sustained pollution prevention results and serving as a model to the public and others in the industry.
Harmony Environmental Award
The Harmony Environmental Award recognizes chemical and non-chemical manufacturing facilities that achieve environmental improvements in pollution prevention and regulatory compliance, as well as those that gain economic synergies as a result of these improvements. Recipients of the 2008 Harmony Award are as follows:
Chemical Manufacturing:
- Cedar Bayou Plant
- Drilling Specialties, Alamo Plant
- Chevron Phillips Singapore Chemicals Limited
- K R Copolymer Co. Ltd.
- Borger Plant
- Port Arthur Plant
- Qatar Chemical Company Ltd.
- Shanghai Golden Phillips Petrochemical Co. Ltd.
- Sweeny Chemical & NGL Fractionation
- Specialty Chemicals Tessenderlo Plant
- Chevron Phillips Chemical (China) Co. Ltd.
Non-chemical Manufacturing:
- Kallo Compounding Plant
- La Porte Engineering Polymers Compounding Plant
- Singapore Plastics Compounding & Development Center
- Performance Pipe - Bloomfield, IA
- Performance Pipe - Brownwood, TX
- Performance Pipe - Fairfield, IA
- Performance Pipe - Hagerstown, MD
- Performance Pipe - Knoxville, TN
- Performance Pipe - Pryor, OK
- Performance Pipe - Reno, NV
- Performance Pipe - Startex, SC
- Performance Pipe - Williamstown, KY
"Environmental stewardship is a key component of our operational excellence management system," said Charleen Dickson, vice president of Environment, Health and Safety. "These awards recognize the many ways our employees working in our facilities demonstrate their concern and commitment to the environment."
About Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP (Chevron Phillips Chemical) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC, one of the world's top producers of olefins and polyolefins and a leading supplier of aromatics, alpha olefins, styrenics, specialty chemicals, plastic piping and polymer resins. The LLC and its affiliates own over $7 billion in assets, generate $13 billion in annual revenue and employ over 5,300 people at 38 manufacturing and research facilities, located in nine countries. Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC is equally owned by Chevron Corporation and ConocoPhillips, and is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas. For more information about Chevron Phillips Chemical, visit www.cpchem.com.