ExxonMobil Chemical Sites Earn Energy Efficiency Awards.HOUSTON -- Energy efficiency projects at ExxonMobil Chemical Company (NYSE NYSESee: New York Stock Exchange :XOM XOM Exxon Mobil Corporation (stock symbol) XOM X/Open Object Management XOM OSI-Abstract-Data Manipulation API XOM Xml Object Model XOM X/Open Osi Abstract Data Manipulation ) manufacturing sites that are saving in excess of 3.9 trillion BTUs annually earned American Chemistry Council The American Chemistry Council (ACC), formerly known as the Chemical Manufacturers' Association, is an industry trade association for American chemical companies. The American Chemistry Council (ACC) is in charge of improving the public image of the chemical industry. (ACC See adaptive cruise control. ) awards. The improvements at the company's Baton Rouge, Louisiana For the Canadian restaurant, see . 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The awards are part of ACC's Energy Efficiency Continuous Improvement Program, which has recognized ExxonMobil Chemical for each of the past eight years. EXCEPTIONAL MERIT AWARDS ExxonMobil Baytown Chemical Plant Energy Efficiency Program - for reducing energy use through the company's Global Energy Management System monitoring practices that let console operators take timely action to improve energy efficiency. The practices use Key Energy Variables, critical measures that are continually monitored and controlled. ExxonMobil Beaumont Polyethylene Plant Significant Improvement in Manufacturing Operating Unit operating unit A type of operating company that engages in transactions with outsiders and that is owned by another business. For example, in 1995 the stockholders of Capital Cities/ABC approved a $19 billion merger with the Walt Disney Company, whereupon - for developing a method that increased conversion of feedstock into product, decreasing energy consumption. The site initiated the project under ExxonMobil's Global Energy Management System. SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT IN MANUFACTURING AWARDS ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Chemical Plant - received awards for two projects based on implementing ExxonMobil's Global Energy Management System. One redesigned compression equipment, resulting in reduced natural gas consumption. The other identified opportunities for maintenance that improved the performance of large heat exchangers. ExxonMobil Baytown Chemical Plant - received awards for adjustments to distillation equipment that reduced by 30 percent the amount of energy to make aromatics products and for supplying excess low-pressure steam from one unit to an adjacent one. ExxonMobil Beaumont Chemical Plant - received awards for installing equipment that reduced natural gas consumption in a furnace and for implementing practices that reduced steam and natural gas consumption. ExxonMobil Beaumont Polyethylene Plant - for reducing natural gas consumption through improved flare controls. ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAM AWARDS ExxonMobil Baytown Olefins Plant - for implementing systematic energy management through new operating strategies and modifying equipment used in major energy-consuming processes. ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Chemical Plant - for improved maintenance practices that reduced steam loss and new instrumentation that improved furnace performance, minimizing natural gas use. ExxonMobil Edison Synthetics Plant - for upgrading air system, boiler, power supply and building lighting facilities, as well as enhancing process conditions, to improve energy efficiency. Through the Energy Efficiency Continuous Improvement program, ACC members demonstrate commitment to Responsible Care(R), the chemical industry's environmental, health and safety performance improvement initiative. Under Responsible Care, members and partners adhere to a core set of guiding principles and codes of management practice that make health, safety and environmental impacts, including the use of energy and natural resources, key considerations in developing and improving products and processes. ExxonMobil Chemical is a global leader in technology, product quality and customer service with petrochemical manufacturing and/or marketing operations in more than 150 countries around the world. To find out more about ExxonMobil Chemical, visit www.exxonmobilchemical.com. Editor's notes: 1) ExxonMobil, the ExxonMobil logo, and the "Interlocking interlocking /in·ter·lock·ing/ (-lok´ing) closely joined, as by hooks or dovetails; locking into one another. interlocking Obstetrics A rare complication of vaginal delivery of twins; the 1st X" are trademarks or registered trademarks of Exxon Mobil Corporation Exxon Mobil Corporation U.S.-based oil and gas company formed in 1999 through the merger of Exxon Corp. and Mobil Corp. It has investments and operations in petroleum and natural gas, coal, nuclear fuels, chemicals, and ores. . 2) The term "ExxonMobil Chemical" refers collectively to some or all of the companies affiliated with Exxon Mobil Corporation that have chemical manufacturing and/or marketing operations around the world. |
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