Texas

Mexico´s Pemex faces spike in worker accidents, rising emissions, and declining chemical production

Mar 8, 2022

Mexican state oil company Pemex, which owns six refineries in Mexico as well as the recently transferred Deer Park refinery in Texas, reported in late February that its petrochemical production declined in 2021, a year when worker accidents surged and...

U.S. construction material prices and contractor bid proposals on the rise in 2022

Feb 7, 2022

Any new project decisions in 2022 will be evaluated in an environment of ongoing material price increases and supply disruption that has alredy pushed some contractors to propose higher bids with longer completion times.

U.S. Gulf Coast lost construction jobs as oil and gas investment slowed

Jan 24, 2022

U.S. construction investment in oil, gas fields and pipelines contracted 4% in January-November 2021 from a year earlier, according to data shared by the U.S. Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) in January.

LyondellBasell faces aftermath of deadly acetic acid accident in Texas

Aug 10, 2021

LyondellBasell’s plant in La Porte, Texas on July 27 accidentally released about 100,000 pounds of acetic acid killing two contractors and injuring 30 people.

Chemical industry facing pressure for added tax burden to fund site remediation work

Jul 5, 2021

Petrochemical companies grouped under guild association American Chemistry Council oppose plans for a reinstatement in fiscal 2022 of Superfund chemical excise taxes that may bring back levies unseen in a quarter century saying that the added tax burden may...

Plentiful U.S. Gulf Coast worker availability for petrochemical projects may not last

Apr 21, 2021

A year following the quick spread of Covid-19 and lockdowns, non-residential construction activity in the U.S. remains significantly below pre-pandemic levels as of April 2021 and particularly in regions that include chemical hubs.

Venture of Total, OMV-owned Borealis to start Texas cracker in Q1 2021, PE line in Q1 2022

Feb 9, 2021

Baystar, a Total and Borealis venture, will start by the end of March its new Port Arthur ethane cracker with over a million-tonnes-per-year capacity while the new 625,000-tonne per year polyethylene unit in Pasadena will start by March 2022, a spokeswoman...

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