Southland Steel investing $18 million in expansion
Southland Steel Fabricators Inc. is expanding to a second Louisiana site, creating new fabrication and coating lines with a $18 million capital investment at...
Lotte Chemical starts up Calcasieu Parish facility
Lotte Chemical Louisiana has begun production of its world-scale ethylene glycol (EG) manufacturing facility in Calcasieu Parish.
The Lotte Chemical Louisiana EG plant is a...
Sasol’s Louisiana project beset by more delays
Sasol's Lake Charles chemical plant is again facing delays and cost overruns.
The South African company's share price recorded its biggest one-day drop in nearly...
How Lake Charles is prepping for historic workforce challenges
Some would say it’s a good problem to have. Southwest Louisiana has about $44 billion in industrial investment under construction and more is coming...
The good news/bad news of the Atlantis announcement
BP’s discovery of an additional 400 million barrels of oil in the Atlantis field—and its associated $1.3 billion expansion announcement in January—underscore the power...
Bagwell Energy Services plans $2.5 million fabrication center expansion in Delcambre
Bagwell Energy Services is expanding its Port of Delcambre fabrication center in Iberia Parish, investing $2.5 million and adding 150 new jobs in the...
The final environmental impact review is in on Driftwood LNG
Tellurian Inc. cleared another hurdle last week as U.S. federal regulators issued a positive environmental review for its Louisiana project.
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory...
New Orleans industrial activity pushed westward by retail, entertainment development
When real estate professionals think of the New Orleans industrial market, oil companies, the Port of New Orleans (recently rebranded Port NOLA) and distribution...
Shell puts its faith in petrochemicals to fuel growth
On the east bank of the Mississippi River, around 20 miles downstream from Baton Rouge, The Telegraph reports, sprawls an 800-acre industrial mega-complex.
Since the mid-Sixties, the...
Shell starts production at new Geismar petrochemicals unit
Shell Chemical LP has begun production of the fourth alpha olefins unit at its Geismar chemical manufacturing site.
The 425,000-ton-per-year capacity expansion brings total AO production at Geismar to...