ChampionX's chemical manufacturing facility in Odessa. (Source: ChampionX)
ChampionX has completed an upgrade to its Odessa, Texas, chemical manufacturing hub, adding almost 10% of annual capacity and installing new automation and packaging technologies.
The new plant will help the company meet growing demand from the oil and gas industry for its emulsion breakers, corrosion inhibitors, biocides and other chemical products. It will also be more efficient and safer, said Chase Alexander, ChampionX’s U.S. land chemical technologies general manager.
“With less touching and less handling of chemicals, you drive efficiency but you also drive safety improvements,” Alexander said. “Anytime you’re dealing with chemistry, the name of the game is to handle it as little as you can.”
The improvements to the plant, which opened in 1975, include an automated tote and drum filling station. The extra capacity amounts to more than 10 million kilograms per year.
ChampionX also added five people as part of the expansion, bringing the plant’s workforce to 68 people.
The company provides chemistry solutions, artificial lift systems and engineered equipment and technologies for the oil and gas industry.
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