ExxonMobil is currently engaged in a joint venture with SABIC (a subsidiary of the Saudi state petroleum and gas company Saudi Aramco) to build an ethylene and polyethylene complex (including what is claimed to be the world's largest steam cracker) near Corpus Christi, Texas, due to open in Q4 2021. ExxonMobil has confirmed that the plant's location is intended to take advantage of growing output from the nearby Permian Basin, a center of the U.S. fracking boom. Its output will reportedly include packaging materials.
A sign reads "Communities are breathing polluted air for throwaway plastics".