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Senator Larry Grooms Joins BP Cooper River Plant For Town Hall

by The Berkeley Observer
. From left to right: Pedro Acosta, Samantha Lorio, Jeff Rehrig, Sen. Grooms, Robert Dehay, James Shiveley and Marianne Andrews.
From left to right: Pedro Acosta, Samantha Lorio, Jeff Rehrig, Sen. Grooms, Robert Dehay, James Shiveley and Marianne Andrews.

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–South Carolina State Senator Larry Grooms joined employees from BP’s Cooper River Plant for a town hall Monday to discuss a host of issues ranging from the local economy to the need for transportation infrastructure development.

Approximately 60 BP employees attended the event.

Grooms is the Chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee and represents Berkeley and Charleston Counties, including the Cooper River Plant.

Located near Charleston, South Carolina, BP Cooper River is one of the world’s largest producers of purified terephthalic acid (PTA), a chemical feedstock used primarily to make polyester products. Part of BP’s Western Hemisphere Aromatics business unit, the site operates two process units with a combined capacity of 1.27 million metric tons a year.

Today BP provides jobs to more than 200 employees and approximately 150 contract employees and pumps more than $100 million a year into the economy through payroll and third-party expenditures.

BP Cooper River contributes about $2 million each year in school and county property taxes.

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