Texas

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…

United States

Seatrium Sells AmFELS Yard in Texas

Seatrium, a global provider of engineering solutions, has agreed to sell its AmFELS shipyard in Brownsville, Texas, to Karpower Valley for $50 million. The tran…

United Kingdom

Lummus and Synthomer Announce Partnership on Acrylic Acid Esters Technology

Lummus Technology, based in Houston, Texas, and Synthomer, headquartered in London, U.K., have announced a strategic partnership to license Synthomer’s pr…

Gas power plant

Entergy’s Texas Unit Receives Approval to Build Natural Gas Power Plants

Entergy’s Texas unit announced on Thursday that it has received approval from the Public Utility Commission of Texas to construct two new natural gas powe…

LNG

ConocoPhillips to Buy LNG From Nextdecade’s Rio Grande Train 5 Project

U.S. oil and gas producer ConocoPhillips (COP.N) announced on Monday that it will purchase 1.0 million tonnes per annum of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Next…

LNG

EQT to Buy LNG From Sempra’s Port Arthur Phase 2 Project

On August 27, 2025, Sempra, a U.S. energy company, announced that its subsidiary will supply 2 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to…

Japan

Velocys and Sekisui Chemical Sign MoU for E-SAF Production Technology

Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd., based in Osaka City, Japan, and Velocys Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, have signed a memorandum of understanding to collabora…

United States

Kao Corp. Completes New Tertiary Amine Facility in Texas

On August 22, 2025, Kao Corp., based in Tokyo, held an opening ceremony for its new tertiary amine production facility in Pasadena, Texas. With an annual produc…

Power Construction

Pacifico Energy Unveils Off-Grid Project for AI Data Centres

Pacifico Energy is developing the GW Ranch project in Pecos County, Texas, an off-grid power facility to support data centers and AI operations, targeting 5 GW …

LNG

ConocoPhillips to Buy LNG From Sempra’s Port Arthur Phase 2 Project

ConocoPhillips announced on Thursday it will secure 4 million tonnes per annum of LNG from Sempra’s Port Arthur LNG Phase 2 project in Jefferson County, T…