据烃加工新闻6月10日消息称，州长John Bel Edwards和埃克森美孚巴吞鲁日炼油厂经理David Oldreive宣布了公司的最终投资决定，将斥资2.4亿美元对埃克森美孚巴吞鲁日炼油厂进行资本改进。这一系列项目将提高处理能力，增加满足市场需求的灵活性，提高整体竞争力，并安装技术，预计可减少10%的挥发性有机化合物排放。
这些项目将帮助保留炼油厂现有的1300个工作岗位，埃克森美孚估计，这些升级将在3年内支持超过600个施工岗位。该投资还将为北巴吞鲁日工业培训计划的毕业生提供 20 多个全职工作机会，该计划是埃克森美孚在2012年牵头的一个合作项目，旨在为社区居民提供免费、快速的工业工艺培训。
州长Edwards表示：“我我们很高兴埃克森美孚决定推进这一系列重要的项目。一个多世纪以来，埃克森美孚巴吞鲁日炼油厂一直推动着我们州和国家的经济发展。这些最新的资本升级将继续使埃克森美孚在巴吞鲁日的炼油厂和化工厂成为世界上最具创新性和竞争力的能源基地之一。”
项目建设预计将于今年晚些时候开始。根据路易斯安那大学拉斐特分校 Kathleen Babineaux Blanco 公共政策中心主任 Stephen Barnes 博士称，到 2023 年，巴吞鲁日项目建设带来的直接、间接和衍生工作岗位将达到 2030 个。在整个项目期间，直接财产税收入预计将达到4300万美元。
Oldreive说:“路易斯安那州和巴吞鲁日社区通过提供强有力的支持和合作机会，确保这项投资为我们的公民和当地企业带来好处，帮助这一系列项目成为现实。通过这项投资，我们将把设施的挥发性有机化合物排放量减少多达 10%，同时通过增加税收和当地居民和小型多元化企业的就业机会，为社区带来直接价值。埃克森美孚在全球减排方面取得了重大进展，并计划到2025年进一步减少温室气体排放。”
1909年，埃克森美孚炼油厂在巴吞鲁日破土动工，现已发展成为一个全球规模的综合炼油和石化综合企业的一部分，为世界各地的客户提供燃料、润滑油和蜡产品。
朱佳妮 摘译自 烃加工新闻
原文如下：
ExxonMobil refinery to receive more than $240 MM in upgrades
Gov. John Bel Edwards and ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Refinery Manager David Oldreive announced the company’s final investment decision for more than $240 million in capital improvements at the ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Refinery. The suite of projects will improve processing capability, increase flexibility for meeting market demand, advance overall site competitiveness and install technology for an expected 10% reduction of volatile organic compound emissions.
The projects will help retain 1,300 existing jobs at the refinery, and ExxonMobil estimates the upgrades will support more than 600 construction jobs on-site over three years. The investment also will provide more than 20 full-time job opportunities for graduates of the North Baton Rouge Industrial Training Initiative, a collaborative program spearheaded by ExxonMobil in 2012 to provide no-cost, fast-tracked industrial craft training for community residents.
“We are delighted with ExxonMobil’s decision to move forward with this important suite of projects,” Gov. Edwards said. “For more than a century, the ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Refinery has fueled the economy of our state and nation. These latest capital upgrades will continue to position the integrated ExxonMobil refinery and chemical complex here in Baton Rouge as one of the world’s most innovative and competitive energy sites.”
Project construction is expected to begin later this year. According to Dr. Stephen Barnes, director of the Kathleen Babineaux Blanco Public Policy Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, direct, indirect and induced jobs resulting from project construction will total 2,030 in Baton Rouge by 2023. Direct property tax revenue is projected to reach $43 million over the life of the project.
“Louisiana and the Baton Rouge community have helped make this suite of projects a reality by offering strong support and the opportunity to collaborate to ensure this investment provides benefit for our citizens and local businesses,” Oldreive said. “Through this investment, we will reduce the facility’s volatile organic compound emissions up to 10% while bringing direct value to the community through increased tax revenue and job opportunities for local residents and small and diverse businesses. ExxonMobil has made significant progress to reduce emissions globally and plans further reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.”
After a 1909 groundbreaking in Baton Rouge, the ExxonMobil Refinery has grown to be part of a world-scale, integrated refining and petrochemical complex providing fuels, lubricants and wax products to customers around the world.
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