Lyondell Chemical Company, headquartered in Houston, Texas, is North America's third-largest independent, publicly traded chemical company. Lyondell is a leading global manufacturer of chemicals and plastics, a refiner of heavy, high-sulfur crude oil and a significant producer of fuel products.

Key products include ethylene, polyethylene, styrene, propylene, propylene oxide, titanium dioxide, gasoline, ultra low-sulfur diesel, MTBE and ETBE. Our products are the building blocks for countless goods and products that people use every day, such as food packaging, household furnishings, detergents, cosmetics, automotive parts, construction and home-building materials, paints and coatings and many other applications.

Equistar Chemicals, LP; Houston Refining LP and Millennium Chemicals Inc. are wholly owned subsidiaries of Lyondell. Lyondell operates on five continents and employs nearly 11,000 people worldwide.