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Huntsman to Repair and Restart Texas Olefins Facility

Aug 16 2006

Huntsman Corporation has announced that its Board of Directors has given the go-ahead for the repair and restart of the company's Port Arthur, Texas manufacturing facility that was damaged in a fire in April of this year.

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The company also announced that it has chosen The Shaw Group of Baton Rouge, LA as the general contractor for the rebuild. Shaw will be responsible for all aspects of engineering, procurement and construction. The total cost of the clean-up, engineering and rebuild is estimated at $110 million.

Huntsman will also accelerate some maintenance work on the facility that was scheduled to be done during a 2010 turnaround and inspection. The company said that doing the work now will make the plant run more efficiently. The maintenance work will not extend the time required to repair and restart the facility.

The Port Arthur facility has an annual production capacity of 1.4 billion pounds of ethylene and 800 million pounds of propylene.

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