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Plan to revive Texas’ corporate tax breaks adds more lucrative incentives, eases job requirements
April 9, 2023 - Texas Republicans on Monday unveiled a plan to revive the state’s largest corporate tax break program with legislation that would make the incentives more widely available and more lucrative; water down prior job creation and wage requirements; and exempt “grid reliability” projects —...
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Fast-growing Chambers County tackles boom
April 3, 2023 - The average income for the 29,900 households in Chambers County is $87,584 and the top occupations are construction (7,021) and manufacturing (4,543) with about half the population under 35 years of age.Those are some of the numbers reported by County Judge Jimmy Sylvia, the elected leader of Chambers County government, at a recent luncheon...
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Sunpan announces major new Houston warehouse
March 27, 2023 - BAYTOWN, Texas – Toronto-based furniture supplier Sunpan will add a new 200,000-square-foot warehouse near Houston. The facility is set to be operational by the fourth quarter.Combined with its Toronto facility, the addition will bring the company’s total distribution space to nearly half a million square...
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Sempra will build $13B LNG facility in Port Arthur
March 19, 2023 - Sempra said Monday that it will move ahead with construction of a $13 billion liquefied natural gas facility in East Texas, becoming the second company to reach a final investment decision on a Gulf Coast LNG facility in as many weeks.Sempra Infrastructure, a subsidiary of the San Diego-based energy conglomerate,...
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Technip Energies, Shell Catalysts & Technologies and Zachry Group Selected for Calpine’s Carbon Capt
March 8, 2023 - Technip Energies, together with Shell Catalysts & Technologies and Zachry Group, have been awarded a Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) contract for a carbon capture unit project in Baytown, Texas, USA.The project will be designed to capture two million tons per annum of CO2, which represents 95% of CO2 ...
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Bayou Bend expands carbon capture project to onshore Southeast Texas
March 5, 2023 - Bayou Bend CCS LLC (Bayou Bend), a carbon capture and sequestration project located along the Texas Gulf Coast, announced an expansion of its carbon dioxide (CO2) storage footprint through the acquisition of nearly 100,000 acres onshore in Chambers and Jefferson Counties, Texas.The increased acreage positions Bayou Bend to be one...
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Oxy’s new carbon capture hub could trap 1.2B metric tons of East Texas greenhouse gases
March 1, 2023 - A 55,000-acre site straddling three East Texas counties could soon be home to one of Occidental Petroleum’s carbon capture hubs, the Houston oil giant said Thursday.The site runs along the Gulf Coast in Chambers, Liberty and Jefferson counties, where refineries and chemical plants emit enough carbon dioxide...
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A Sudden Rush to Make Sustainable Aviation Fuel Mainstream
February 20, 2023 - A flurry of investments, policy changes and technological breakthroughs is giving a jolt of energy to the nascent market for sustainable aviation fuel, a low-carbon alternative to traditional jet fuel made from crude oil.United Airlines and other companies started a $100 million venture capital fund on Tuesday to invest in...
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Harris County Transit celebrates 1 millionth ride milestone in Baytown
February 12, 2023 - The Harris County Transit fixed route bus service in the City of Baytown has reached 1 million passenger boardings. Shortly after the Harris County Community Services Department (HCCSD) created the Harris County Transit division, a two-route bus service in Baytown was established July 28, 2008. Two months later, Harris County Transit provided...
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Enterprise Products makes $5.6B profit in 2022, transports record volumes in Q4
January 31, 2023 - Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners LP (NYSE: EPD) brought in a $5.62 billion profit this year as the midstream company transported record volumes through its pipeline network.The company's total pipeline transportation volume was 11.5 million barrels of oil equivalent per day during the fourth quarter, up from 11.3 million boepd during...
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