News Archive
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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Germany-based freight co. signs 47-acre truck terminal lease in Baytown
January 21, 2025 - A 164,640-square-foot truck terminal in Baytown has secured a tenant.Deugro (USA) Inc., the American arm of Germany-based freight forwarding company Deugro, signed a five-year lease for the 47-acre property at 2828 FM 1405 in the massive TGS Cedar Port Industrial Park on Jan. 2, according to Dayton Street Partners.Partners Real Estate...
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Sumika - CHIPS for America
January 15, 2025 - On January 16, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce and Sumika signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms (PMT) to provide up to $52.1 million in proposed direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act. The proposed investment would support the construction of a greenfield factory in Baytown, Texas. The proposed...
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Year in Review: 2024 was a great year for local industry
December 25, 2024 - ExxonMobil, the oil and gas giant with over a century of roots in Baytown, kept the scribes busy in 2024 trying to keep up with its latest announcements.Advanced recycling, carbon capture and storage, clean hydrogen production, even power plants for data centers made headlines for the company with Humble (Oil)...
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ExxonMobil to expand advanced recycling capacity
November 20, 2024 - SPRING, Texas – ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) plans to invest more than $200 million to expand its advanced recycling operations at its sites in Baytown and Beaumont, Texas. The new operations are expected to start up in 2026 and can help increase advanced recycling rates and divert plastic from landfills....
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