ExxonMobil has announced an investment of more than US$200 million to increase the capacity of its Baton Rouge chemical and lubricants plants for synthetic lubricant base stocks manufacturing and lubricants blending, packaging and storage.
The expansion will increase ExxonMobil’s worldwide capacity of synthetic esters and alkylated naphthalene by more than 25 per cent. The project will include the construction of a state-of-the-art blending center for synthetic aviation oil at ExxonMobil’s lubricant blending plant in Port Allen, Lousiana.
“ExxonMobil continues to invest in its operations in Louisiana,” said the manager of the Baton Rouge chemical plant, Paul Stratford. “Over the past three years, the corporation’s capital expenditures in the state exceeded $930 million. These investments help create jobs and contribute to the economic growth of the state and the region.”
The 8.3-acre facility will manufacture more than 145 lubricant products and have an annual throughput of more than 90 million gallons. Construction is expected to begin in late 2012. The new facilities in Baton Rouge will replace ExxonMobil’s existing base stock manufacturing and aviation lubricants blending, packaging and storage operations in Edison, New Jersey, which will continue production until the new facilities in Louisiana begin operation.
The project will create more than 400 direct construction jobs and the facilities will provide 45 new full-time local jobs when production begins in 2014.
This expansion project will make ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge chemical plant the world’s largest producer of synthetic esters and alkylated naphthalene.
This expansion project will make ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge chemical plant the world’s largest producer of synthetic esters and alkylated naphthalene.
“The new aviation lubricants blending center reflects our continuing commitment to safe and reliable supply of aviation and other lubricant products,” said manager of ExxonMobil’s lubricant blending plant in Port Allen, La., Julius Bedford.