Clariant has announced the opening of its new Karratha, Western Australia storage and blending facility. This facility will significantly reduce the chemical transport distance to customers and will provide improved local customer response to orders. This is a true paradigm shift for supporting oil and gas production efforts to the North West Shelf Venture and is complementary to sustainability initiatives for both Clariant and customers.

Clariant's new blending/supply base in Karratha offers a storage capacity of up to 300,000 liters to ensure a consistent flow of production chemicals to the region. The facility can blend thousands of liters annually of solvent/hydrocarbon- and water-based chemical products to support oil and gas production efforts. With its 21-km distance from the supply port of Dampier, the new Karratha plant allows Clariant to simplify the transport logistics from Perth, which required offshore tank rental and a multitude of over-the-road tanker trucks.

By reducing transport distance by 99%, it shortens call-off-to-delivery time from more than 24 hours to less than 2 hours.