Every plant in the 16 clusters, 2020 to 2030, from the chemXplore record.
Counts of plants, not capacity: a pilot plant is one block, as a cracker is.
Every block is a plant in the chemXplore record, and every date on it comes with its source. The other view of Cluster Watch reads the same 16 clusters as one system: the projects each is building and closing, its parks, and the pipelines and grids between them.
Projects and pipelines →The board names each plant and its owners. A subscription opens the record behind it: capacities, products, the projects at each plant with their expected dates, and the source for every fact.
See what a subscription holdsA refinery is one block, and so is a pilot plant: the board counts plants, not capacity. A plant that closed in part, or was mothballed or cut back, slides out a little.
The board pulls a plant out only once it closed whole. Projects and pipelines counts every closure announced or taken effect since 2020, that of a single unit at a site that runs on included, so its count is higher than the plants pulled here.
The later years look quiet because little is announced that far ahead, not because nothing will happen.
A plant is on a pipeline or grid when it makes or takes in what the line carries, in a cluster the line runs through. The record holds no flows or contracts, so that is as far as it goes. The stacks sway as their base empties: that is decoration, and nothing here predicts a collapse.
Country borders: Natural Earth.
| Cluster | Standing | Added since 2020 | Closure announced | Pulled since 2020 | Standing against pulled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhine-Ruhr | 101 | 18 | 2 | 3 | |
| Ludwigshafen-Mannheim | 66 | 8 | 1 | 10 | |
| Antwerp | 57 | 9 | 2 | 3 | |
| Central German chemical triangle | 39 | 8 | 3 | 7 | |
| Rotterdam-Moerdijk | 37 | 11 | 0 | 5 | |
| Frankfurt-Höchst | 30 | 6 | 1 | 1 | |
| North Sea Port | 26 | 6 | 0 | 2 | |
| Chemelot | 22 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Eemsdelta and Emmen | 22 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lower Elbe | 22 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |
| Seine axis | 22 | 8 | 0 | 3 | |
| Lausitz | 14 | 6 | 0 | 1 | |
| Flemish inland | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| North Sea Canal area | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| Dunkirk | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Wilhelmshaven | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
The bar: plants standing, and in red those pulled since 2020.
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