Project Profile
Value: US$211 million
Location: Carling, Lorraine region of eastern France
Production: 320,000 tonnes annual output
Start-up Year: 2015
Total has announced plans to spend US$211 million before 2016 on upgrades for its petrochemical platform in Carling, in the Lorraine region of eastern France. Total plans to develop new activities on the platform in the growing markets for hydrocarbon resins (Cray Valley) and for polymers, while shutting down the acutely loss-making steam cracker in the second half of 2015. Total shut the first steam cracking unit on the Carling site in 2008. The other unit was out of action for several months after an accident in 2009 and has since run at 320,000 tonnes annual output out of a total capacity of around 400,000 tonnes.
Operators:
Total: Operator with 100% interest