TPC sets out plans to re-start Isobutylene feedstock production

ERJ staff report (DS)

Houston, Texas -- TPC Group Inc. said it has begun a detailed engineering study to plan the restart of some dehydrogenation assets at the Company's Houston Operations. These would provide isobutylene feedstock for the Company's rapidly-growing fuels products and performance products, including polyisobutylenes, high purity isobutylene and diisobutylene.

"TPC Group has a long history of producing isobutylene using our dehydrogenation assets. With butane feedstock availability increasing and the resulting product markets in a structurally short position, we believe that a unique opportunity exists to generate value for our stockholders by returning these assets to service," said Micheal Bloesch, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives. "Having dehydrogenation capacity coupled to our isobutylene based Performance Products units all at one site gives us advantages that are difficult to replicate."

These existing assets, if refurbished, could be capable of producing on-purpose propylene, isobutylene, butene-1, butadiene, or isoprene from natural gas liquids.

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Press release from TPC Group