Beaumont, Texas, is home to one of the country’s most sophisticated industrial operations, supporting thousands of jobs and creating new products every day.
By 2025, new chemical projects across the U.S. are estimated to create 468,000 new jobs, thanks in part to newly discovered pockets of natural gas. Unlocked by new technology, the abundant natural gas supply in...
ExxonMobil has commenced operations at its new ethane cracker at its Baytown chemical and refining complex in Texas. The unit will supply the nearby Mont Belvieu plant with premium ethylene, a critical feedstock...
To the untrained eye, it looks like an emergency responder’s first move is always a step toward the situation that has people running the other way. In the movies, police never have time for backup, and...
Editor’s Note: The city of Beaumont, Texas, has long been host to refining and petrochemical companies, and its link to ExxonMobil is only strengthening as the company continues to expand its footprint at its...
Editor’s Note: The city of Beaumont, Texas, has long been host to petrochemical companies and its link to ExxonMobil is only strengthening, as the company continues to expand its footprint at its refinery and...
Almost as soon as Larry Galloway retired from ExxonMobil, he went back to work. The local high school grad from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, now spends his free time teaching and volunteering for the North Baton Rouge...
When most people think about manufacturing in the United States, industrial towns in the Midwest like Gary, Indiana, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania or Youngstown, Ohio might come to mind. But today there’s a...
When Amy Hues and Cari Williams started community college classes at Lee College in Baytown, Texas, they didn’t know each other. But it turns out the two tech buffs have a lot in common. They each drive trucks,...
In 1978, freshly graduated, drafting degree in hand, Gilbert Santana went to work at ExxonMobil’s newly opened petrochemical plant. Before him, his two grandfathers also worked for ExxonMobil. Nearly 40 years on,...
In economic-development terms, a vibrant community can be defined by raw data. But the evidence is more personal on its streets. In Baytown, Texas, a Gulf Coast industrial city on the eastern edge of Houston, the...
The United States is experiencing a manufacturing boom led by the petrochemical industry, as I recently noted. More than $160 billion of chemicals investment has been announced, much of it along the Gulf Coast,...
