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Dow’s Freeport site is the largest integrated chemical manufacturing facility in the Western Hemisphere and home to Dow’s new state-of-the-art ethylene facility – the cornerstone of Dow’s $12 billion in growth investments on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The facility, which started up in September 2017, has a nameplate capacity of 1.5 million metric tons. Leveraging the U.S. shale gas advantage, Dow’s Gulf Coast investments are designed to strengthen Dow’s competitiveness in downstream, consumer-led industries such as packaging, infrastructure and consumer care.

30^th Mar 2017: The facility will feed several derivative units that will come on stream throughout 2017 and 2018. These include plants producing 400,000 t/y Elite PE; 350,000 t/y specialty LDPE grades; 200,000 t/y next-generation Nordel metallocene ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM); and 320,000 t/y of specialty and conventional polyolefin elastomers with a high melt index. A debottlenecking of bimodal gas-phase PE capacity will also add 125,000 t/y. (Source)

7^th Feb 2020: Products: Ethylene and propylene, butadiene and pygas byproducts. Oyster Creek is also home to Dow's propane dehydrogenation unit, producing polymer-grade propylene, and Dow's TX-8 ethylene facility. (Source)