Petrochemical

Koch Industries secures majority stake in St. James methanol project

A company owned by Koch Industries is now the majority owner and managing member of a $1.85 billion methanol production complex under construction in...

$32B in construction projects are lined up through 2022. Can Louisiana handle it?

A trucker’s daily bumper-to-bumper crawl on I-10 in Lake Charles and Baton Rouge has consequential impacts on commerce, to be sure, but it spotlights...

Shareholder concerns grow over Sasol’s troubled Lake Charles Chemicals Project

Sasol Ltd. has been meeting with shareholders as dissatisfaction grows with cost overruns at the $13 billion Lake Charles chemical project in the U.S.,...

Indorama’s Lake Charles steam cracker startup pushed to 2020

Although Indorama's Lake Charles steam cracker was mechanically complete in May, the plant likely won't fully start up until January 2020. In its latest quarterly...

28 students complete latest BASF TECH Academy

Twenty-eight area high school students completed BASF’s TECH Academy—a week-long educational and workforce development program hosted at River Parishes Community College in Gonzales. The program...

Sasol begins startup of Lake Charles cracker

Sasol is initiating the startup of its new 1.5 million tons-per-year cracker in Lake Charles. However, the company's new associated 420,000 million tons per...

New Methanex project makes Geismar one of the largest methanol complexes in the world

Methanex is spending up to $1.4 billion to construct a third methanol facility in Geismar. The project will create 62 new direct jobs with average...

With growing polyethylene capacity, more resin export logjams expected

Logjams that hindered moving resin out of U.S. ports from late 2018 through April have lightened up, but market participants expect the same problems...
Veolia

Veolia plans $40 million expansion

Veolia North America is investing $40 million to expand its regeneration plant in Darrow. Known as the Burnside facility, the Veolia plant converts spent sulfuric...
Formosa has announced that it will proceed with a planned $9.4 billion chemical manufacturing complex in St. James Parish

Hearing scheduled tonight on Formosa chemical complex

Louisiana will hold a public hearing tonight on whether to approve 15 air emissions permits for Taiwanese company Formosa Plastics. The Louisiana Department of Environmental...

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