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$717 Million Expansion Makes the Shell Geismar Plant Largest AO Production Site in the World

Gulf coast plant expansion set to make new jobs at world’s largest alpha olefins plant Royal Dutch Shell’s (ticker: RDS.B) Shell Chemical LP announced today that it received a final investment decision to increase alpha olefin (AO) production at its chemical manufacturing site in Geismar, Louisiana. The expansion consists of a fourth AO unit, which will add 425,000 tons of