Dow Chemical St. Charles Operations
USA /
Louisiana /
Hahnville /
World
/ USA
/ Louisiana
/ Hahnville
World / United States / Louisiana
production, chemical industry
They take hydrocarbon feedstock (mostly the cast-off by-products of oil refining and natural gas production) and make ethylene. Then they take the ethylene and turn it into derivative products like polyethylene (used in milk jugs, storage bags, RubberMaid containers, etc.), ethylene glycol (biggest use is in PET for soda and water bottles and medicine containers), and ethylene oxide, which is an intermediate building block for many everyday compounds.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 29°58'48"N 90°26'46"W
- St. Charles Refinery (Valero Energy) 4.4 km
- Motiva Enterprises LLC - Norco Refinery (Motiva / Shell) 5.7 km
- Marathon Ashland Petroleum - Garyville Refinery 19 km
- Motiva Enterprises LLC - Convent Refinery 47 km
- Former Belle Grove Sugar Plantation 69 km
- Bollinger Amelia Repair Shipyard 75 km
- DOW Chemical plant 88 km
- ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Refinery 92 km
- Tembec Papermill 119 km
- Big Cajun II Power Plant 124 km
- Taft, Louisiana 1.2 km
- Hahnville, Louisiana 3.8 km
- Killona, Louisiana 6.2 km
- Destrehan, Louisiana 8.5 km
- LaBranche Wetlands 11 km
- Boutte, Louisiana 11 km
- Luling, Louisiana 13 km
- Lac Des Allemands 14 km
- Bayou Gauche, Louisiana 17 km
- Des Allemands, Louisiana 19 km