3 April 2018
DETAILS
Air Products (NYSE:APD) and Huntsman (NYSE:HUN)
jointly gathered today for a groundbreaking ceremony
held at the site of what will be
Air Products’ new steam methane reformer (SMR)
and cold box in Geismar, Louisiana.
Air Products will build, own and operate the facility
under a long-term agreement and industrial gases
including carbon monoxide(CO), hydrogen and steam
will be produced and supplied to
Huntsman’s neighboring Geismar operations.
The new facility is to be commercially onstream in early 2020.
The new facility, to be located on land leased from Huntsman,
will produce approximately
* 6.5 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD) of CO,
* 50 MMSCFD of hydrogen, and
* up to 50,000 pounds per hour of steam.
There is also the ability for the facility to be expanded
to increase CO in the future to support additional growth.
Executive Vice President – Industrial Gases at Air Products
“It is always exciting to break ground
for a new world-scale facility,
and especially to do so at a location
where it will primarily serve a long-standing customer.
We have supplied Huntsman with industrial gases
at other facilities where they have operations
and we are pleased to expand our relationship
through this new supply supporting Huntsman at Geismar.
The Air Products plant will be state-of-the-art
in terms of high reliability and sustainability,
with enhanced energy efficiency and reduced emissions,”
Tony Hankins,
President of Huntsman Polyurethanes
“The reliability and environmental performance
of the new industrial gases plant from Air Products
will be an important foundation in supporting
the delivery of our North American Polyurethanes strategy.
As a business, we are focused on rapidly building
our downstream footprint and capabilities.
This strategic shift can only be achieved
with a strong upstream asset position
at our Geismar MDI facility.
We look forward to the successful commissioning
of the Air Products plant in early 2020.”
Beyond supply to Huntsman’s production facility in Geismar,
Air Products’ new plant will also be connected to
its Gulf Coast hydrogen pipeline and network system (GCP).
Dedicated in 2012, the 600-mile pipeline
span is the world’s largest hydrogen plant
The GCP stretches from
the Houston Ship Channel in Texas to New Orleans, Louisiana,
and supplies customers
with over 1.4 billion feet of hydrogen per day
from 22 hydrogen production facilities.
Executive Vice President – Industrial Gases at Air Products
“We recently announced increased hydrogen capacity
to the Gulf Coast pipeline
for customers with an onstream project in Texas,
and now we will again have added enhanced
and reliable hydrogen supply to the pipeline network
when this Geismar facility is placed onstream.
We continually seek additional sources of hydrogen
to add product supply capacity to our customers
along our well-established pipeline network system
along the Gulf Coast,”
Contact Information
Press Contact
Art George
610-481-1340
Media Inquiries:
(Huntsman)
Gary Chapman, tel: (281) 719-4324;
e-mail: gary_chapman@huntsman.com
Investor Inquiries:
(Huntsman)
Ivan Marcuse, tel: (281) 719-4637;
e-mail: ivan_marcuse@huntsman.com
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