Texas

Nuclear Reactor

Aalo completes assembly of experimental reactor

Aalo Atomics has held a ceremony to unveil its completed Critical Test Reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory. The company said it expects the reactor to achi…

Western Canada Select Crude Oil Discount Widens to Near One-Year High

The discount for Western Canada Select crude oil relative to the North American benchmark West Texas Intermediate futures widened to its highest level since Jul…

Approval of Texas Deepwater Oil Terminal to Boost U.S. Crude Export Capacity

The U.S. federal government recently approved a project to construct a deepwater oil terminal along the Texas coast, which is being advanced by Sentinel Midstre…

Switzerland

Clariant Catalysts and Technologies Garner Awards at Gulf Energy Information Gala Event

Clariant, the Switzerland-based specialty chemical company headquartered in Muttenz, has received two major honors at the 2025 Gulf Energy Information Excellenc…

Germany

BASF and ExxonMobil Collaborate on Methane Pyrolysis Technology

BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and ExxonMobil (Houston, Texas) announced on Monday a strategic collaboration to advance methane pyrolysis technology, a step towar…

United States

Syensqo, Bell Join Forces to Industrialize Composite Part Manufacture

Syensqo, based in Alpharetta, Georgia, and Bell Textron Inc., headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, have announced a collaboration aimed at accelerating the indus…

Gas turbine engine

Fermi America Leases GE Turbines for Texas HyperGrid Project

Fermi America has signed a long-term capital lease agreement with Mobile Power Solutions (MPS) for seven GE TM2500 gas turbines, providing a total of 157.5MW of…

SAF

Neste Extends Partnership With United Airlines for SAF Across US

Neste and United Airlines have strengthened their partnership to supply sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to three major U.S. airports: George Bush Intercontinent…

Crude Oil

Texas Pipe Producer Wins Contract for Mexico’s First Deepwater Oil Development

Texas-based Tenaris has secured a major contract to supply casing and tubing for Mexico’s first deepwater oil development project, Trion, located in the P…

United States

ÇImsa Opens New Grey Cement Plant in USA

Çimsa, a leading Turkish cement manufacturer, has inaugurated a new grey cement grinding facility in Houston, Texas, marking its entry into local grey ce…

United States

Meta Commits $1.5 Billion for AI Data Center in Texas

Meta Platforms (META.O) announced on Wednesday that it will invest $1.5 billion to build a new data center in El Paso, Texas, marking its 29th facility worldwid…

United States

Exxon Restarts FCCU at Beaumont, Texas, Refinery, Sources Say

Exxon Mobil has restarted the gasoline-producing fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) at its Beaumont refinery in Texas after a temporary shutdown earlier in th…

United States

X-ELIO Starts up Renewable-Power Plant to Support BASF Freeport Operations

X-ELIO, a renewable energy developer based in Madrid, Spain, has commenced operations at its Liberty Energy Project in Dayton, Texas. The project integrates 72 …

United States

Formosa Plastics Commissions Largest Horizontal Polypropylene Reactor in North America

Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A., headquartered in Livingston, New Jersey, has successfully commissioned the largest horizontal polypropylene reactor in Nor…

United States

OpenAI, Oracle & Softbank Announce 5 New U.S. AI DC Sites Under $500B Stargate Program

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank have announced five new U.S. AI data center sites under Stargate, OpenAI’s large-scale AI infrastructure platform. The new si…