FG LA, a division of Formosa Taiwan, has received final permits on a $9.4 billion petrochemical complex in Louisiana and aims to start construction soon.
The project will be built in two phases through 2029, according to permit documents filed with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality. The first phase, targeted for startup in 2024, will include a 1.2 million mt/year ethane-fed cracker, a 600,000 propane dehydrogenation plant, a 600,000 mt/year polypropylene unit, linear low density and high density polyethylene plants with capacities of 400,000 mt/year each, and a 900,000 mt/year ethylene glycol plant
The second phase, to start up by 2029, will have a second 1.2 million mt/year cracker, LLDPE and HDPE plants with capacities of 400,000 mt/year each, and a second 900,000 mt/year ethylene glycol plants.
