Millennium Chemicals' Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer to Speak at Lehman Brothers 2004 High Yield Bond and Syndicated Loan Conference


HUNT VALLEY, Md., March 11, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Millennium Chemicals (NYSE:MCH) announced today that John E. Lushefski, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will address analysts at the following event:


         Analyst
         Conference:    Lehman Brothers 2004 High Yield Bond and
                        Syndicated Loan Conference in Orlando,
                        Florida; Tuesday, March 23, 2004, at 7:30 
                        a.m. Eastern Standard Time

         Presentation:  The slides will be available at the time of
                        the presentation and afterwards at
                        www.millenniumchem.com, and click on
                        Investor Relations

         Related
         Disclosures:   Reconciliations of non-GAAP financial
                        measures to GAAP financial measures and
                        any other applicable disclosures (including
                        the slides) will be available at the time of
                        the presentation and afterwards at
                        www.millenniumchem.com, and click on
                        Investor Relations

Millennium Chemicals (website: www.millenniumchem.com) is a major international chemicals company, with leading market positions in a broad range of commodity, industrial, performance and specialty chemicals.

Millennium Chemicals is:


  --  The second-largest producer of TiO2 in the world, the
      largest merchant seller of titanium tetrachloride and a
      major producer of zirconia, silica gel and cadmium/based
      pigments;

  --  The second-largest producer of acetic acid and vinyl
      acetate monomer in North America;

  --  A leading producer of terpene-based fragrance and flavor
      chemicals; and,

  --  Through its 29.5% interest in Equistar Chemicals, LP, a
      partner in the second-largest producer of ethylene and
      third-largest producer of polyethylene in North America,
      and a leading producer of performance polymers, oxygenated
      chemicals, aromatics and specialty petrochemicals.


            

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