Case study Part of the global INEOS group, INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA (INEOS O&P USA) is North America’s third largest producer of high-density polyethylene and polypropylene, and its second largest merchant marketer of ethylene. It produces 7.5 billion pounds of olefins and polymers per annum from five sites in North America, employs nearly 1,000 people, and generates revenues of USD 5 billion per year. The company’s main products – ethylene, propylene, butadiene, mixed butenes, crude benzene, polyethylene and polypropylene – are manufactured from hydrocarbons derived from oil and gas. Hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) techniques have been developed that enable previously inaccessible hydrocarbons to be extracted from shale oil deposits – providing an abundance of

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