Cosden Oil & Chemical Company

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Cosden Petroleum was an American oil and chemical company, whose successor companies are now part of Total . Cosden was mainly active in Texas .

In 1958, Cosden Petroleum built a modern refinery with a polystyrene plant in Big Spring (Texas) . In 1963, Cosden Petroleum was taken over by Petrofina and renamed American Petrofina . That same year, the Cosden Oil & Chemical Company was formed to operate the petrochemical complexes in Big Spring and Colorado City . Other refineries were in Mt. Pleasant , Wichita Falls, and El Dorado, Kansas .

Cosden also operated a pipeline and product pipeline network that stretched north to Nebraska and Iowa .

Sales in fiscal 1963 was 156 million US dollars , equivalent to $ 1,300 million in today's money.

Cosden was the only company in the world that made ethylbenzene by separating it by distillation . This super fractionation required columns with over 300 theoretical plates and a reflux ratio of about 100: 1. From 1957 onwards, Cosden produced ethylbenzene with a capacity of 22,700 tons per year.

In 1968 Cosden Oil & Chemical entered into a joint venture with Borg-Warner , which built a styrene monomer plant in Louisiana . Their capacity was increased to 1 million t / a by 1980. With BFGoodrich , Cosden Oil & Chemical formed the Abtec Chemical joint venture in 1977 , which produced acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). In 1979 Abtec Chemical was sold to Mobay .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cosden Adds Polystyrene Plant . In: Chemical & Engineering News . tape 36 , no. 27 , July 7, 1958, pp. 26 , doi : 10.1021 / cen-v036n027.p026 .
  2. ↑ a b c American Petrofina Annual Report 1963
  3. ^ Heinz-Gerhard Franck, Jürgen Walter Stadelhofer: Industrial Aromatic Chemistry: Raw Materials · Processes · Products . Springer, 1987, ISBN 978-3-662-07876-1 , pp. 119 .
  4. ^ Alain Chauvel, Gilles Lefebvre: Petrochemical Processes . Editions OPHRYS, 1989, ISBN 978-2-7108-1065-0 , pp. 255 ff . ( Google Books ).
  5. ↑ Patent US2959626 : Process for the production of styrenegrade ethyl benzene. Filed July 15, 1957 , published November 8, 1960 , Applicant: Cosden Petroleum Corp. Inventor: Dan M. Krausse, George A. Randall. ‌
  6. ^ Kathryn Rudie Harrigan: Joint Ventures, Alliances, and Corporate Strategy . Beard Books, 1985, ISBN 978-1-58798-195-1 , pp. 264-265 ( Google Books ).