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OxyChem (Occidental Chemical Corporation)
Wholly owned chemical subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY, HQ Dallas TX); one of the largest US PVC resin manufacturers, primarily from the Battleground Manufacturing Complex in La Marque (near Texas City), Texas. OxyChem is also one of the largest US chlorine and caustic soda (chlor-alkali) producers, operating in Texas, Louisiana, and Tennessee. OxyChem's PVC resin production is vertically integrated with its chlor-alkali operations — it produces its own chlorine and VCM. The Battleground complex sits on the Houston Ship Channel corridor, approximately 25 miles southeast of Houston, within the densest concentration of US chemical manufacturing. OxyChem's parent Occidental Petroleum carries significant upstream oil and gas exposure, creating financial linkage between crude oil prices and OxyChem's capital spending priorities for chlor-alkali and PVC assets.
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OxyChem Battleground Manufacturing Complex →
USTexas · manufacturing
OxyChem's Battleground Manufacturing Complex in La Marque (Texas City area), Texas — a major integrated chlor-alkali and PVC resin production site on the Houston Ship Channel. Produces chlorine, caustic soda, VCM, and PVC resin. Located within the Houston Ship Channel petrochemical corridor, one of the most concentrated chemical manufacturing zones in the world. Exposed to Gulf Coast hurricane and storm surge risk. Source: https://www.oxy.com/oxychem/products/pvc
OxyChem Deer Park - Texas →
USChlorine and PVC resin production; integrated VCM chain; part of 7-site Gulf Coast network
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PVC Resin
40%Chlor-Alkali (Chlorine & Caustic Soda)
35%VCM & Chemical Intermediates
20%Specialty Chemicals
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Did you know2023
OxyChem simultaneously produces PVC resin (for water and sewer pipes, building products, and wire insulation) AND chlorine (used to disinfect the water flowing through those PVC pipes) AND caustic soda (used in water treatment pH adjustment). The same La Marque Texas facility supplies the plastic pipe for new water infrastructure AND the chemicals to treat the water that infrastructure carries. Municipal water utilities buying PVC pipe for water main construction and municipal water utilities buying sodium hypochlorite for water disinfection both source chemical inputs from OxyChem -- without necessarily recognizing they share a common supplier across two entirely different procurement categories. An extended outage at OxyChem's Battleground Complex (as happened briefly during Hurricane Harvey in 2017) simultaneously constrains PVC pipe supply for infrastructure projects AND chlorine/caustic supply for water treatment operations.
Occidental Chemical Corporation ↗Origin2023
OxyChem (Occidental Chemical Corporation) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum -- meaning an oil company owns one of the US's largest PVC and chlor-alkali producers. OxyChem inherited significant chemical assets from Hooker Chemical Company (acquired by Occidental in 1968), including the Niagara Falls, New York facility that became notorious as the Love Canal environmental disaster site (Hooker had buried toxic chemical waste at Love Canal, New York, which was later covered and developed as a residential neighborhood; contamination was discovered in 1978 in one of America's most significant environmental crises). OxyChem's current primary production is at the Battleground Manufacturing Complex near Texas City, Texas -- a 2,000+ acre integrated chlor-alkali and PVC complex on the Houston Ship Channel. The same complex that makes the PVC resin for water pipes also makes the chlorine that treats the water flowing through those pipes, and the caustic soda for dozens of industrial applications -- all from a facility owned by an oil company carrying crude oil price exposure on its balance sheet.
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