HOUSTON, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Lyondell Chemical Company (NYSE: LYO) announced the following schedule and contact information for its third quarter 2000 earnings release and teleconference:

    Earnings Release:        October 24, 2000
8:30 a.m. Eastern Time
By PR Newswire distribution and Lyondell web site
at www.lyondell.com.
Teleconference:          October 24, 2000
10:00 a.m. Eastern Time
Listen-only mode via telephone and Internet
broadcast on Lyondell's web site at
www.lyondell.com.
Dial In Number:          800-513-1181
Please call 10 to 15 minutes before the scheduled
start of the teleconference.  No pass code is
required.
Web Replay:              Will be available at 12:00 p.m. ET on October 24
at www.lyondell.com.
Telephone Replay:        Will be available from 1:00 p.m. ET October 24 to
5:00 p.m. ET October 27.  The dial-in number is
800-615-3210, Pass Code 4627847

SOURCE Lyondell Chemical Company
Web site: http: //www.lyondell.com
CONTACT: media, Marvin Brown, 713-309-2643, or investors, Investor Relations, 713-652-4590, both of Lyondell Chemical Company