Sept. 1, 2005

(Beaumont, Texas) – ExxonMobile Chemical Company completed full commercial start-up of the new cogen additions at its Beaumont Cogeneration Facility in Beaumont, Texas. Zachry Construction Corporation, as part of Jefferson County Power Partners, completed construction of the $300 million, 510-Megawatt cogen addition in January 2005.

ExxonMobile began commerial operation of two of the new units this past June. Startup of the last unit occured in August.

A total of three 170-megawatt natural gas-fired GE Power Systems combustion turbine generators and three Foster Wheeler heat recovery steam generator were added to the power plant.

(This story contains information from an Industrial Info news article.)

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