Project Profile
Value: US$700 million (2013)
Location: Hahnville, just upriver from New Orleans
Area: 2,000-acres
Start-up Year: 1966
The St. Charles Petrochemical Complex (SCO) consists of a 2,000-acre petrochemical manufacturing complex in Hahnville, just upriver from New Orleans. SCO is owned by Union Carbide Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, and began operations in 1966. In late 2012 Dow restarted an idled ethylene plant at its St. Charles Operations site near Hahnville, Louisiana after almost four years, as cheap shale gas made US production more competitive.
The large SCO site has three water treatment plants. Products made at SCO end up in thousands of household, business and consumer products that improve everyday life, including plastics, insecticides, films and fabrics, antifreeze, jet fuel, brake fluid, paints and adhesives, textiles, lubricants, pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, personal care products, toothpaste, shampoos, soaps, cleaning agents, detergents, fabric softeners, animal feed supplements and more.
Operators:
Dow Chemical Company: 100% interest
Contractors:
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc: EPC contract for the expansion of the project
Subcontractors: