BASF FREEPORT SITE — United States

BASF FREEPORT SITE is a chemical plant in United States. Chemical plants produce a wide range of industrial and specialty chemicals, many requiring precise temperature control and sustained heat input for reactions and separations. It emits about 607,067 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 0.11% of the CO₂e from the 1,910 facilities in United States that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3674458.

Measured and modelled emissions reconciliation

This facility is linked to GHGRP ID 1001934 for reporting year 2023. The official source reports 645,795 t CO2; Climate TRACE models 607,067 t CO2e.

Limits of this comparison

• Measured CO2 and modelled CO2e are not identical accounting constructs.
• The crosswalk is an entity match, not proof that reporting boundaries are identical.
• The reporting year is shown explicitly and values are not extrapolated to the current year.

Official GHGRP source · Download this reconciliation: CSV · JSON with provenance.

In context: how this facility compares

Subsector: other-chemicals. As chemical plant, it requires high process heat (typically 100–500°C) for its core industrial operations, supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion. Chemical plants produce a wide range of industrial and specialty chemicals, many requiring precise temperature control and sustained heat input for reactions and separations.

Capacity & CO₂-intensity comparison computed from Climate TRACE industrial facilities data; sector role based on engineering reference.

What 607,067 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's estimated annual CO₂e (Climate TRACE, modelled) in everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.

Parent company

Basf Corp US EPA GHGRP
Parent company per US EPA GHGRP; the operator itself is not stated in the source dataset.

Local climate

BASF FREEPORT SITE sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 29.0°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

Site climate & environmental severity

This site sits in an aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1288 W/m² to ambient — roughly 0.99× the loss at a 20 °C reference. Reference-surface calculation at a 150 °C surface from WorldClim climate normals (ASTM C680 / ISO 12241) — an indicative per-climate comparison, not a measurement of this site’s specific equipment. Open method dataset: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20787408 (CC BY 4.0).

Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.

How it compares & nearby sites

Nearby industrial sites

• Yara Freeport LLC Ammonia Plant · Chemical Plant · 979,909 t CO₂
• Dow Chemical Co., Freeport (LHC 7),Tex · Petrochemical · 2,653,261 t CO₂
• AIR LIQUIDE - FREEPORT HYCO PLANT · Chemical Plant · 198,256 t CO₂
• Olin Blue Cube, Freeport, TX · Chemical Plant · 1 t CO₂
• SHINTECH INCORPORATED · Other Manufacturing · 120,045 t CO₂
• SI GROUP INC TX OPERATIONS · Chemical Plant · 76,614 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 29.00208, -95.39978. View on OpenStreetMap.

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