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Company growing by keeping plants going
April 23, 2025 - They searched all over the Houston area for a site to locate their ever-expanding business and Atlas Copco Power Technique found it at Cedar Port. “We were in a 14,000-square foot building and growing rapidly,” Ben Morello, Service Operations & Remanufacturing Manager, said. “We were looking for...
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Riceland master-planned community in Mont Belvieu has first residents, amenities
April 15, 2025 - Today, what used to be the heart of Mont Belvieu in Chambers County, east of Houston, consists almost exclusively of refineries. Its roughly 10,000 residents have been living on the eastern side of the Grand Parkway since the late 1980s, when the town had to be rebuilt 2 miles east of its...
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Blue Tide & Shell Lubricants Complete Re-Refining Facility to Develop High-performance Lubricants
March 31, 2025 - Pennzoil-Quaker State Company, a subsidiary of Shell plc (“Shell”) and Blue Tide, an innovative company developing a network of used motor oil (“UMO”) re-refining facilities across North America and a portfolio company of Tailwater Capital LLC, today announced the completion of Blue Tide’s world-scale...
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Sam’s Club planned for 104-acre San Jacinto Marketplace development in Baytown
March 23, 2025 - It appears the future San Jacinto Marketplace in Baytown has landed its first major tenant.Sam’s Club has registered plans to develop a new store at 6611 Garth Road for an estimated $22.1 million with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.Construction is set to start in...
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Baytown Announces Sports and Entertainment Venue
March 18, 2025 - The City of Baytown is pleased to announce plans for a new state-of-the-art youth sports and entertainment venue called the ExxonMobil Baytown Events Center. This multi-purpose facility will provide top-notch amenities for athletes of all ages while also hosting concerts and other events. Expected to attract hundreds of thousands of...
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Americold Announces Purchase of Facility in Houston, Texas to Accommodate Customer Growth
March 16, 2025 - Americold Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: COLD) (the “Company”), a global leader in temperature-controlled logistics, real estate, and value-added services focused on the ownership, operation, acquisition and development of temperature-controlled warehouses, announced today it has signed an agreement to acquire a facility in Houston, Texas for a total investment...
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Hydrogen investments will accelerate America’s manufacturing renaissance
March 13, 2025 - In 1976, the British statistician George Box wrote the famous line, “All models are wrong, some are useful.” In complement, I would paraphrase, adding “useful and predictive.” Such is the case with hydrogen and its growing potential in the Houston region.Numerous predictive models indicate...
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Exxon consolidates Proxxima operations in Baytown, continues growth
February 13, 2025 - Spring-based Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) is consolidating and growing its Proxxima technology at its massive Baytown Complex.After acquiring California-based Materia Inc., which was Exxon’s Nobel Prize-winning partner in developing the Proxxima polyolefin thermoset resin systems, in 2021, Exxon has spent the past year moving its...
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ONEOK, MPLX partner to build LPG export terminal in Texas
February 3, 2025 - ONEOK, Inc. and MPLX LP have entered into definitive agreements to form joint ventures to construct a new large-scale 400,000-barrel per day (bpd) liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) export terminal in Texas City, Texas, and a new 24-inch pipeline from ONEOK's Mont Belvieu, Texas, storage facility to...
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ExxonMobil’s hydrogen burner a breakthrough
January 26, 2025 - ExxonMobil’s Baytown Olefins Plant (BOP) has been conducting commercial testing since December of what it calls next-generation burners that can operate on up to 100% hydrogen fuel, the company stated in a news release.“We’ve reached another milestone in our mission to help reduce emissions...
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