Webcast Alert: LyondellBasell Announces Third-Quarter 2008 Earnings Teleconference

November 13, 2008

HOUSTON, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- LyondellBasell announced the following schedule and contact information for its third-quarter 2008 earnings teleconference:

  Webcast:           Tuesday, November 18, 2008
                     10:00 a.m. Eastern Time
                     Hosted by Doug Pike, Vice President, Investor Relations
                     Listen-only mode via Internet broadcast on
                     LyondellBasell's web site at
                     http://www.lyondellbasell.com/investorpresentations

  Teleconference
  Numbers:           Go to http://www.lyondellbasell.com/teleconference for
                     a complete listing of toll-free numbers by country.

                     Pass Code:  LyondellBasell

  Slides:            Slides will be available at the time of the

                     presentation and afterward at
                     http://www.lyondellbasell.com/investorpresentations

  Web Replay:        Will be available by 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Nov. 18,

                     2008, at
                     http://www.lyondellbasell.com/investorpresentations

  Telephone Replay:  Will be available from 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time on
                     Nov. 18, 2008, to 10:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Dec. 18,
                     2008.
                     The dial-in numbers are:
                     United States:   866-491-2944        Pass Code:  4508
                     International:   +1(203)369-1730     Pass Code:  4508

  Related
  Disclosures:       Certain required reconciliations of non-GAAP financial
                     measures to GAAP financial measures and any other
                     applicable disclosures are available on
                     http://www.lyondellbasell.com/investorpresentations


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SOURCE: LyondellBasell Industries; Lyondell Chemical Company; Equistar

CONTACT: Media, Susan P. Moore, +1-713-309-4645, Investors, Douglas J.
Pike, +1-713-309-4590, both for LyondellBasell Industries; Lyondell Chemical
Company; Equistar Chemicals, LP; Millennium Chemicals Inc.

Web site: http://www.lyondellbasell.com/